Word: coating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was the snappy platoon leader in the Schiaprelli sports coat (He'd been to military academy) who said, "Column of files from the right, left file forward march" with the intrepidity of a seasoned Master Sergeant...
...original hard-eyed man, one hand in coat pocket, or arms folded with hands at shoulder holsters, always standing by unobtrusively. He often shows up in Presidential photographs (see cuts...
...confess, hand the paper to the priest. He writes the penance and instructions on the paper, then returns it. Others who wish to see him outside the confessional go to the rectory parlor and "whisper" their problems. A mute "whispers" by shielding his hand inside his partly opened coat as he signs. A woman makes signs behind her purse...
Followed by admiring students, the Duke walked briskly through the Yard wearing a grey double breasted suit. The coat was worn slightly longer than is the American style but the overlap was much narrorer than is customarily worn here. It was an English tweed of rather coarse weave into which was worked a small black hound's tooth check...
...soon as this man caught sight of her, he began to look himself over. Starting at the bottom with his pointed shoes, he began to look up, lifting his peg-top pants the higher to see fully his bright socks. His coat long and wide and leaf-green he opened like doors to see his high-up tawny pants and his pants he smoothed downward from the points of his collar, and he wore a luminous baby-pink satin shirt. At the end, he reached gently above his wide platter-shaped round hat, the color of a plum...