Word: coate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George and Queen Mary. From the station to Buckingham palace the route was lined with brilliantly uniformed soldiers and thousands of cheering Britons. Both Kings were dressed in military uniforms and were seated in the first carriage. Queen Mary was, as usual, dressed severely, wore a silver-tissue brocade coat and the inevitable perching toque, and, as usual, she looked every inch a Queen. Queen Marie wore a wine-red fur-trimmed cloak and a large hat well down upon her head...
...last man to wear a swallow tail coat* in the Senate?? Omar D. Conger of Michigan, who went to the Senate in 1881, after several years as Republican whip in the House...
...What Senator was so short that he had his seat and automobile altered to fit him?The late Senator Knox, colleague of Penrose. "Who was the only man who ever took off his coat in the House of Representatives??Elisha Adams Morse, manufacturer of shoe polish, who took off his coat while making a speech, was admonished by Speaker Reed, and put it on again; no one has done it since...
...Story. We first meet youthful Tony walking up a street "well-dressed, in the habit of the time, his silk hat shining, his collar of a somewhat exaggerated height, his cutaway coat tightly buttoned, his trousers fitting close to the leg. He carries his gloves and a neatly furled umbrella." He is the British replica of Tarkington's Seventeen: fatuously earnest, readily friendly, but suspicious, on occasion, with that fierce suspiciousness of youth questioning the wisdom or motives of the world of adults...
...silk hat shining, a collar of some-what exaggerated height, a cutaway coat tightly buttoned...