Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigger than a lion, the young liger reveals the characteristic proportions of a tiger. He wears his father's khaki coat, adorned by faint tiger-stripes. He flatters his father by wearing a beard and favors his mother by his ears. His mane, however, is "like a donkey...
...Republican side, no less pronounced characters took a hand in the proceedings. In the first row on the aisle?appropriate seat ? Senator La Follette appeared, tight-lipped and bushy-haired, in neat frock coat, and slightly stooped, with rather a genial air. His desk was a frequent stopping place for Senators meandering about the chamber. With a critical smile he watched the progress of legislation, and then, when the moment came, stepped forward with an impassioned speech about the starving women and children of Germany. Stepping into the aisle, gesticulating fiercely, he paced about. Half a dozen times...
...Ralston at 3. For honesty I should vote them both at 8, for I shouldn't give any one 10 in honesty. For character I should make them both high. For modernity I should give the edge to Coolidge. Ralston belongs in the Prince Albert-coat period. But I recall this game always ended in a rating for "sex lure." I shall stop right here...
Another hostile critic was the Daily Herald, official organ of the Independent Labor Party. The newspaper referred to the "ostentatious" court gown of Mrs. Philip Snowden and "the scarlet coat and blue trousers trimmed with silver braid" of "Jamie" Brown, King George's proxy at Holyrood, spoke of its "impatient contempt for such misuse of life...
...reforms which have been brought to pass by an enlightened society, descendants of Fagin and Bill Sykes still roam the wilds of Whitechapel. If anything, their numbers have greatly increased since the days when the Artful Dodger and his merry associates removed pocket bandkerchiefs from the coat-talls of respectable old gentlemen, and disturbed the waking hours of Bow Street Magistrates. Human nature is still a checkered pattern of blacks and whitos...