Word: coating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Advertising a Washington fur sale, a gabby disc jockey substituted the word "potatoes" for dollars, cried: "You can get this coat for 497 potatoes." A paper-box factory foreman named Cecil Lineback took him at his word. He hurriedly bought the potatoes, rushed into the furrier's, and, after hours of heated negotiation, walked out with a sheared beaver coat...
...Frock Coat & Beard. All last week, other Republicans were out in full force from coast to coast: Speaker Joe Martin in New York, Governor Earl Warren in Los Angeles, Candidate Harold Stassen in Philadelphia. In Indianapolis, G.O.P. Chairman Carroll Reece rounded up a stable of Republican orators for a nationwide Lincoln Day broadcast. In Boston, a Massachusetts college president dressed up in a frock coat and long black beard to recite Lincoln's second inaugural address...
...program for all affairs specified the type of dress to be worn: traje corriente (street dress) for a few luncheons; traje chaqué (striped pants and cutaway coat) for the inauguration, and traje frac (white tie) con decoraciones for the banquets. By the day before the ceremonies started, there wasn't a cutaway coat or a full dress suit for rent or sale in all Venezuela...
People's Choice. As far as the Garden crowd was concerned, the best dog lost in the semifinals. He was Ch. Red Coat of Tercor, best of breed in the Irish setters and runner-up to the springer in the "sporting group." Red Coat was handled by Harold Correll, who the same day was named the best handler of 1947. Correll runs his own kennels, sells his dogs and his training services to the best-bred bidders ("I look them...
...tuxedoed old judge bent down to peer at the odd little creature, a child shrilled: "What is it, momma, a lamb?" Unconscious of the childish blasphemy and of the Madison Square Garden crowd, Dr. Samuel Milbank studied the Bedlington terrier intently-measuring his narrow skull, feeling his linty coat and reached (arched) back, testing his alertness and movement...