Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul's Cathedral, by Dean Inge. Owing to the illness of her father, the bride could not ride in his ceremonial coach, which must only be used when the Lord Mayor is passenger. She traveled, however, in an excellent black coach, embossed with the city's coat of arms. She was accompanied by aldermen, coachmen, constables and the City Remembrancer, who were dressed in wigs and full ancient panoply. Married. Robert Wales Emmons III, employe of J. P. Morgan & Co., son of famed yachtsman Robert Wales Emmons II, to Frances Stephenson Weld; in Boston...
...Sept. 20). Last week II Duce visited Bologna. Amid a teeming throng he opened the new athletic Stadium Littoriale. As he rode away a youth darted from the crowd and fired point blank at Signor Mussolini. The bullet ripped away a piece of cloth from the Premier's coat, pierced the sash of the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus which he wore, grazed the sleeve of the Mayor of Bologna who sat at his side...
Early Friday afternoon the little Pralebeys begin to drift into town, and Bill Altenre whose you used to know at St. Sergius, brings one of his club mates in for the week-end. They are happy all over the place, and the fur coat which they leave by accident hardly suffices to pay for the damage they did to your liquor and your room...
...court records of 1672, is an entry to the effect that "Edward Pelham, of the Class of 1673, coming by with a fowling piece in his hands, persuaded two boys to shoot a turkie sitting on Captain Cookin's fence." The remains were then wrapped in a coat and taken to Samuel Gibson's, where "it was dressed by his wife & baked in the oven, & in the night following it was eaten by Mr. Pelham, John Wise, and Jonathan Russell, studts." There are many other records, among them the tale of a student who was convicted of smuggling...
Clad in a bathing cap and a coat of black axle grease and nothing else, Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmell, a mother, climbed out of New York Harbor into a sheet held by her sister, while whistles screeched and 200 rain-soaked persons hailed her with cheers. She had swum from Albany to the Battery (160 miles) in 57 hr. 11 min., swimming time, beating by 6 hr. 24 min. the record made in 1921 by Mrs. Corson.* She lost 4 pounds, used 72 pounds of fat, ate lumps of sugar soaked in whiskey. Having handed Mayor Walker a letter from...