Word: coate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Condon, famed for his part in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, neither drinks, smokes nor swears. He needed no stimulation to wear a U. S. flag on his coat lapel, explain to the Wisconsin stranger that he felt deeply sorry for Convict Bruno Hauptmann...
...that menaces airplanes usually forms on the leading edge of the wings. Goodrich has developed a "deicer" consisting of a pair of rubber tubes which ordinarily lie flat against the wing. When ice formation begins the tubes are pulsated by an air pump. This movement cracks the ice coat, lets the wind blow it away .The "deicer" is already in use on some transport planes, is slated for thorough experiment on military aircraft...
Among the audience the newshawk located "an elderly man in a blue suit, with twinkling eyes" who reminisced: "When I first saw her I remember she wore a long grey coat trimmed with black fur. I remember her eyes looking out from the fur. . . . She is quite as beautiful...
Similarly moved, the Herald Tribune: "She wore a brown coat with a mink collar which she held up around her face continuously, and a small brown hat, almost tricorne in shape, similar to her headdress in Peter Pan. . . . She walked gracefully to the stand, stood erect for a moment, then turned and bowed to Justice McNamee . . . another bow to the jury . . . she seated herself...
...stable relationship in Gloria's life was her friendship with Eddie Brunner. The relationship that finally destroyed her was her love for Weston Liggett, who met her in a speakeasy, became involved with her after Gloria had stolen his wife's mink coat. Eddie was tall, searching, goodhearted, a Stanford graduate who had become well-known as an illustrator in college, then starved in New York. Gloria turned to him when she was in trouble, which was most of the time, lied to him about her dissipations, confided in him, but Eddie, unlike a great many others...