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Word: coate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtains were drawn against the tree-dust he found obnoxious. The smell of perfumes, flowers, steam heat, oppressed him unbearably. Only at 3 a.m., when breathing was easiest for his asthma, would he venture into the street. In a drawing-room he would not doff his fur-lined coat. Once someone entered his house from several flights below, leaving the street-door ajar. Quavered Proust: "Shut that door!"-and died. Author Proust, woman-reared, was olive-skinned, black-haired, heavy-eyed, slender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Telescope | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...home. A friend was seriously ill. Did Mr. Zimman have a little alcoholic stimulant? Mr. Zimman did. Well, a friend of the friend would come down to the corner to get it. Mr. Zimman carefully wrapped a whole gallon jug of liquor in a paper and, without coat, without collar, went out to wait on the corner. A car drove up. To the two men in it Mr. Zimman passed his jug. They took it -and then they tried to take Mr. Zimman too. They were Lawrence E. Thompson and Stanley Riegel, U. S. Dry agents. Protested Mr. Zimman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sick Friend | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...returned in triumph to London. Still wan and droop-shouldered, King George motored from Windsor to sooty Albert Hall, opposite Kensington Gardens. There state landaus and a squadron of gleaming, clanking life guards awaited him. Smiling happily, with a white tea rose on the lapel of his impeccable morning coat, he entered the first carriage with Queen Mary, regal as ever in a gold colored coat and fur-trimmed hat. Through Hyde Park, down Piccadilly the procession trotted, past cheering crowds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

More troublesome buttons than most men has Dean Inge. As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat. His waistcoat-apron buttons down the side. His legs must be encased in gaiters which button all the way up, ending well above the knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Troublesome Buttons | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...roof, one door.-ED. Judge Lynch Sirs: I have just read Negro White's "Judge Lynch." What a dirty lot of lies. I have read a number of articles by both white and black, but never has my blood boiled before. I think if anyone ever needed a coat of tar and feathers its the author of "Judge Lynch." Yes, we do lynch the Negro in the South. Some day the North will be sorry they didn't try the same cure for certain things that the Negro knows will cost him his life-the white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 8, 1929 | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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