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Word: coate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richards, that enthusiastic oarsman, appeared to be the most prominent Harvard athlete on the field. Hardly would the play become exciting, before Dr. Richards, ever vigilant, would detect signs of injury on the part of one of his charges and in fine form and red leather coat, he would sprint across the greensward to make an examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crepuscular Cavorting | 11/19/1929 | See Source »

...became more understandable. She is a pianist. When she was 12, her father brought home his friend John Neal, to hear her play. So impressed was John Neal that upon his death in 1923 he left her $1,000,000 in Reynolds Tobacco stock. She sewed in her chinchilla coat a bar of the song she had played for John Neal, Liszt's Liebestraum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Broken Doll | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...Mexico City, a man appeared on a boulevard, took his coat off and danced before approaching autos like a matador before a bull. When the motorists veered away, he shouted: "These animals have no fighting spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

Critic Swaffer, tall, stringy, in his 50's, convivial, well-to-do, was once a famed young tosspot. Now he confines himself to sherry, champagne His black silk stock, early Victorian wing collar and frock coat attract stares. An English wisecracker, he likes to pin actors with a phrase. Besides the Express, he writes for the London Bystander, for Manhattan's slangy Variety (stage trade journal whose language Editor Sime Silverman defends on the grounds that Variety caters "strictly to hams and theatre managers and acrobats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Swaffer Smacked | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...story), and wise. She charged more for drinks than any of her competitors. The miners and farmers marveled at the way her four girls dressed. Big Maude asked Taylor Gordon to work for her. He agreed, ran errands for the girls, served drinks, wore brass buttons and blue coat, received good wages, liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Highbrown Highbrow | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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