Word: coating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three men leaped on the prowler, while Heyneman applied the poker. Coat and glasses were confiscated, but the prowler, described as being 5 feet, 10 inches and "at least 200 pounds" was too much for his captors...
Three students this morning cornered a burly prowler under an attic bed on 9 Bow Street, stripped him of his glasses and his top coat, bent a poker over his skull, and then lot the intruder slip from their grasp and escape...
Each Sunday a gaunt, austere figure with sideburns, long frock coat and tight, narrow trousers leaves his home in Paris' Latin Quarter, crosses the Seine and heads for Père-Lachaise Cemetery. For hours he strolls among the dead marshals, statesmen and courtiers of the dead Napoleonic Empire; he never fails to pause before the tombstone of the Comtesse de Girardin, the greatest beauty of the Little Corporal's court. Jean Auguste Louis Armand Fèvre, by profession a dealer in rare books, by appearance a bourgeois gentleman of Napoleon's day, has chosen to live...
...Hour Day. In his early campaigning days, Muñoz often trekked around in a pajama coat or open-necked shirt. "Putting on a necktie," he says, "alters a man's whole character." He worked odd hours, thought nothing of sitting up all night in a good political discussion. As Governor, he has modified many of his old habits, and now usually turns up in public looking clean but rumpled in a seersucker suit with a sober four-in-hand tie. He puts in regular office hours, and during the legislative session, sometimes worked an 18-hour day. During...
...hope to escape the coat-and-tie regulations by transferring to Yale, your victory may be short-lived. Miss Bowers reports that certain old grads who came back for visits were "shocked" by the appearance of the freshmen in dining halls. Restrictions on dress are being planned...