Word: coate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maverick: Well, David's coat was of many colors; it depends on how you look at it. Some are color-blind as to the coat of Roosevelt...
Next morning Mr. Maverick was relieved to see that the accomplished proofreaders of the Congressional Record knew their Genesis and had given back the coat of many colors to its proper owner, Joseph. Texan Maverick relished it so much that he requested a report on the 40 Government Printing Office employes who have the awful job of reading the Congressional Record out loud to each other every night. In a solemn rejoinder the Government Printing Office listed other grievous blunders its proofreaders had caught. Sample: a speaker recently mentioned Bancroft's ghost. "Banquo," said the report, "was the party...
...clothing, $2.87; and $4.13 for everything else, including such things as health, recreation, transportation, personal care, savings & insurance, church & charity. Some annual clothing items: three hats at $1.95, one at $2.95; three sweaters at $1.69; three handbags at $1; one $3.95 raincoat every three years; one heavy coat ($29.50), one light coat ($16.95) every two years; four slips fit $1.69; two girdles at $3.95; one scarf at $1; two collar-&-cuff sets at 59?; six bloomers and panties at 59?; two pairs of shoes at $5, two at $4; two "dress-up" dresses...
...going to pay her a large salary for little work, although she couldn't take short-hand and did not type very well. When the broker (John T. Murray) tries to make love to her, Helen runs out of the house. She goes back later for her hat, coat and purse and finds the broker lying murdered and herself the leading suspect...
Charles Atlas, mail-order musclebuilder who admits that he is the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" and poses for pictures in a simple leopard-skin loincloth (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936), inserted the following advertisement in the New York Times: "LIVE LEOPARD CUB WANTED; coat perfectly spotted. . . ." Explanation: Mr. Atlas was dissatisfied with his current pelt because it was irregularly marked...