Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Green Hat." Casually up the marble steps which lead to the Senate Office Building walked George Lyons Cassidy one day last week. Under his coat something was hidden. Police stopped him, found a pint of whiskey on him, other bottles...
...loud welcome. Three weeks ago his triumphal tour of the U. S. was rudely interrupted with news of Berlin's noisome Sklarek scandal (TIME, Oct. 21). Brusquely the Berlin City Council ordered Mayor Boess to return immediately, tell whether he had bought Frau Boess a $1,000 fur coat from the Sklarek brothers, city contractors, and only paid $100 for it. Taking his own good time, Bürgermeister Boess returned only last week...
...Raus mit dem Schieber!" bawled stentorian voices. "Out with the slippery guy!" Mayor Boess blanched even paler. Frau Boess, defiantly wearing her notorious fur coat, squeezed his elbow to hearten him. First up the gangplank to greet them came Berlin's acting Mayor, Bürgermeister Scholtz with a fat briefcase full of documents of the latest evidence against the Sklarek brothers and their city clothing contracts. Glumly he presented it to his superior, then ducked away to speed back to Berlin by airplane...
Even at home Herr & Frau Boess were not allowed to forget the Sklarek fur coat. Communists booed and hooted under the Boess windows until driven away by industrious Schupos, then came back to boo and hoot some more. Most persistent was a stalwart young Red who strode up and down before the house clad with eccentric symbolism in an amorphous, shaggy fur coat dyed flaming yellow...
Louisville was soggy with rain when the Greenbrier docked there at dusk. Soggy too were the President's silk hat, his dress coat. Sportingly he remarked: "If I'm going to leave a trail of pneumonia behind me in the middle west, I at least ought to go along the trail myself...