Word: coate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very simple-minded, but none the less effective what with its thick coat of humor and its exuberant heroic pair, who find life "so beautiful...
Chilled are my hands, he thought, as he stuffed them in his coat. Oh, Lord, what is the matter with me? Here I walk in dejected silence, and over there, not twenty yards away, laughter plays...
...started when the Vagabond was munching cinnamon toast and a sleeve knocked over the cup of Lipton tea into his lap. The edges of his coat and the top of his trousers were soaked, so that the persons standing beside the nickle-a-piece victrola and those gnawing at ice cream cones in their cars outside noticed the absurdity and laughed...
...seen tears form in a woman's eyes. As he was drinking a glass of water at breakfast, the rains came. They not only came, they poured; first the grounds became wet, then drenched, then saturated. Leaves on the trees dripped sheepishly. People in the street turned up their coat collars, sprung umbrellas open, and began...
Shortly after noon, venerable Auctioneer Nathaniel Bacon Kinsey, clad in frock coat and beaver hat, climbed a platform, whanged a bell, started knocking down dogs. A farmer wanted $50 for his wire-haired "or keep your mouth shut." Another owner demanded "$100 or nothing" for a bird dog. Neither got it. "I am damned tired of these high-valued dogs," hollered Auctioneer Kinsey. "Get me some dogs I can sell for fifty cents. Bring them up here." Setters went for two or three dollars each. Ragged farmers who needed the money tearfully parted with prized hounds (see cut). Children...