Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets the window open. His coat is wrapped around the servant's head. She is helpless and he nearly so. He lowers her out and the crowd catches the body. He crawls out, starts to climb down, slips, tumbles. They catch him too, but his shirt is steaming. His arms and neck are fearfully scorched. He faints...
...volume there is also a paragraph describing the dress required by an undergraduate, whose coat should be "black-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps: waist reaching to the natural waist, lapel of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord, on the lower part of the sleeve of a Senior, two on that of the Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore. The pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric...
...policemen. Its ruddy skin has a waxen glow. There is a wiglike perfection to its yellow tonsure. Its puffy hands make pawing gestures. Upon its gentle mouth is an infantine wetness. The staring eyes are china-blue and someone has dressed up this prodigious toy in a swaying, broadtailed coat, canary waistcoat, blue velvet tie, patent leather shoes. Its breath is stertorous, mechanical; its tread is elephantine; its vocal chords match its tread?for this doll can talk?and bawl? and bellow. It looks and talks like one of the footmen from Alice in Wonderland...
Rich brokers pored over faster runabouts or the flat snouted, roomy sea sleds. Small watermen gazed knowingly at single and two cylinder power plants for staunch waterfront wanderers. Children chattered over the countless, bright colored flat backed outboard boats, dragged parents by the coat tails begging them to come buy. The famed Fantail racing runabout which made such astounding speeds in the late autumn was a continuous curiosity. At an easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived...
...much local journalism stands today. It is inconceivable that the tabloid sensationalism that washes down so many breakfasts now, or the pink and purple extravaganzas of Mr. Hearst should ever set the style for a nationwide press such as Mr. Villard imagines. If amalgamation will gloss over with a coat of standardized paint the more glaring sins of modern journalism, there is small reason to lament the passing of the multitude...