Word: coate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cannes, France, as the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, other international socialites sat chatting with Lord Beaverbrook, the talk turned to cuff links. The Duke displayed a fancy pair, given him by his jewel-loving Duchess. Others showed theirs. Lord Beaverbrook stealthily pulled down his coat sleeves. When the Duchess demanded that he show his links, he sheepishly revealed a pair of safety pins...
First of all, that very sentence I praised above, namely "I'd like to show those (censored) truce-breaking truck strikers," lacks an object of any sort: show them what, Freddy? If you mean your new coat, or that cup you won at Camp Oolaloo in the rifle shoot, you should have put that in instead of leaving everybody to guess at it. The sentence, "labor is being babied too much here," is far-fetched and sounds like a description of a maternity ward. Finally, that terrific sentence where you wrote, "If I could get some support...
...three famed Philadelphia newspapers to keep his morning and evening Public Ledger alive, also acquired the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Inquirer. Before he died in 1933 he turned over management of them to his stepson-in-law, John Charles Martin, who got his business start selling coat hangers to villagers along the Ohio River...
...honor and distinction" of advertising that his was "the first concern in the entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
...with the President but did not reveal their subjects. Besides touring Washington's historic spots with vigorous Lady Lindsay, the handsome Captain teaed with Mrs. Roosevelt, called on Chief Justice Hughes, was escorted through the Capitol by Chairman Key Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (in morning coat), lunched with Acting Secretary Welles at his country estate. Before sailing for home he said glibly: "My visit has been many times worth while...