Word: coate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he saw it was me he stepped back." The girl, shown by the autopsy to have been drinking heavily, left her escort at her door, entered her apartment, took off her coat and dress in the bathroom, washed out her silk stockings and hung them over the edge of the tub to dry, cold-creamed her face and put her hair up in curlers...
...picture of Stratford Hall,General Lee's Virginia birthplace, for good measure, was placed on sale it looked as if the Post Office Department were in trouble again. General Lee was apparently wearing the uniform of a lieutenant colonel as there were only two stars on his coat collar. "Marse" Robert, Commander of the Confederate States Armies, ranked as a general, rated three.* What was the explanation...
Said the Post Office Department's press representative: "There were three stars plainly visible on the photograph which we sent to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but I understand they rumpled the general's coat . . . and thus hid one of the stars." Said the wearied Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: "If there ought to be another star it is around on the back of the collar. You might try looking on the back of the stamp...
...coat. Use the arms only, keeping the head directly above the pelvis and avoiding any twisting of the trunk...
...practice of wearing a gown about the Yard in the spring months has ceased, and gowns are worn only on Class Day and Commencement, and as everyone wears a coat under his gown on these days, the Committee decided that the old more becoming style should be revived...