Word: coating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every morning for 25 years (1870-95) a solemn, bearded man in frock coat, droopy trousers and elastic-sided boots opened Queen Victoria's mail. General Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby was the Widow of Windsor's Private Secretary. Over the years, in daily letters to his wife and in countless jottings, Ponsonby charted the awesome complexities of his job. Out of this mass of papers his son, Arthur (Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede), a onetime page at the Queen's court (see cut), has contrived a book which is both a biography of his father and a candid...
Tuxedo. A tailless dinner coat, first worn by a daring young man (Griswold Lorillard) at a formal ball at fashionable Tuxedo Park, N.Y., in the 1880s...
Last week 71-year-old Frank Crowninshield, the dapper, white-haired fine arts editor of Vogue, who once wrote an article entitled "Ten Thousand Nights in a Dinner Coat," sold at auction his influential collection of modern, mostly French art. The 1019 items offered at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries put a total of $181,747 into "Crownie's" elegantly tailored pocket and the event itself had the quality of social luster, with a note of high gaga, which he dearly loves...
...Little Sister Nancy. Nancy "didn't bother much with the customary rules for the conduct of human beings," slept winter and summer clad in her raccoon coat...
Except when he is on tour, Maier broadcasts from a St. Louis studio. He perspires so profusely that he takes off his shirt. When he has to wear shirt and coat before an audience his collar is wilted and his clothes sopping. Even so, he stays to shake hands with his listeners, often standing three hours to do it. He says he likes it, that his hand never gets sore...