Word: coate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mandeville Zenge promptly supplied more headlines by paying off a cab at a Chicago pier and walking into the night. Behind he left a blood-stained coat and a suicide note: "I left home because I was so miserably unhappy over losing Louise ... I suppose she is better off married to that doctor ... I know what I am doing...
Perky, wiry Theodore Metz, 87, occupies a desk in the Manhattan offices of Edward B. Marks Music Corp. He speaks with a thick German accent, looks like an oldtime German music master with his white mustache, flowing necktie and fusty frock coat. Puttering about in the music business, Theodore Metz began last week to celebrate-a little ahead of time-the 50th anniversary of the composition of his No. 1 song, A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight...
...afternoon last week Clark Howell sashayed proudly into the White House offices, with a friend in tow, to see the President. Newshawks gaped as they saw the rotund little Georgian's friend, a scraggle-haired bespectacled man in a white suit, with crimson suspenders visible under his open coat. Into the President's air-cooled office marched the politically-minded publisher of the Atlanta Constitution and his friend. Franklin Roosevelt swung in his chair and, smiling just as he smiles on pauper and potentate, stuck out his hand...
Paying less & less attention to his material condition, Rembrandt worked faster & faster. When his son died, he wore his best to the grave, a ragged, fur-lined coat daubed with paint. A year later, a puff-eyed, firm-jawed 63-year-oldster. deserted except by a few kinswomen and the neighborhood Jews, he died. His fame as a painter had long since vanished into the attics of Amsterdam, apparently forever...
...Devlin (George Brent), crack reporter of the Express, on the murder of a theatrical producer. Thereafter, the two engage in a good-humored but energetic rivalry. Curt Devlin first gets an advantage by identifying the mystery woman in the case from the perfume on the dead man's coat. Then Ellen Garfield catches up by finding the woman's whereabouts by means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before the jury has announced its verdict in the trial, the presiding judge is flabbergasted to find it prematurely...