Word: coate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just as the cab's occupants were leveling their machine gun. Brr-rrr-ack ! went a volley. Careening into a wooded lane, the sedan bounced crazily over bumps and ruts, crashed into an elm. The two men leaped out, ran in opposite directions. One peeled off his hat & coat, dropped them. By the time their pursuers reached the spot, both had escaped. Few hours later a farmer explained that for $10 he had unwittingly driven one of them to a trolley in nearby Maywood. The fugitive had pleaded that his wife had almost caught him in the woods with...
...they collected when they released him last month. By tapping the telephone wires in Factor's apartment the officers had learned of the second extortion demand, persuaded the frightened Factor to let them lay an elaborate ambush. All they got for their pains was the hat & coat and the damaged sedan, the license of which was listed under the name of a man connected with Chicago's "Terrible Touhy" gang. Newsmen discovered that 300 policemen had been organized for the trapping, but that unfortunately their sealed orders failed to state what it was all about. While the policemen...
...mechanic on the chin and flying home. But even in War-time international law operates to extradite civilians and soldiers charged with rape and murder. On the night of Fairbanks' escape, a milk delivery girl was found on the camp grounds raped and murdered. Nearby was Fairbanks' coat and a letter to him from Howard's wife, which is shown to Howard. Soon a German plane drops a note, countersigned by Prisoner Howard, requesting Fairbanks' return. On the front-line a white flag is raised. The Germans raise another, send out two men. The Allied lines...
...team has stepped out on a ball park. Last week he reached the total of 1,308 consecutive games, beat Scott's record. Not counted toward his record were Yankee exhibition games and 19 World Series games. During that amazing run Gehrig, who never wore a hat, over coat or vest until he was famous, has knocked out four home runs in one game (1932), 47 in a season (1927), won the title of the American League's most valuable player...
...women, continues her narrow pencil-line dresses for daytime, rives a mandarin shape to her knee-length, tailored wool coats. Fur from head to heel is used by all couturiers but Helm swirls it most lavishly around throats, shoulders, hems, hats and capes. Jean Paton turns his peplums upside down to look like stiff upstanding coat tails and features long sleeves, no backs, huge under-chin bows for evening...