Word: coating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There he commanded the II Corps in the Seventh Army of George Patton. In that brutal and bloody campaign, U.S. troops learned how vastly different real war was from Tennessee maneuvers. Then the flamboyant George Patton overshadowed Bradley, but it was the quiet, bespectacled infantryman in the old trench coat who made the jittery divisions into a fighting machine. George Marshall wired him: "All our confidence in you has been justified...
Vincente Gonzalez Pardo, grandson of Peru's onetime president Manuel Pardo, and ex-Wife Ruth Piper Hollingsworth Foran Chatfield Pardo (four husbands) were sued in Manhattan by Hattie Carnegie Inc. for unpaid bills Wife Ruth had run up between the separation and divorce. A few items: a mink coat, $6,050; an ermine hat, $110; three nightgowns, $240; two beaded bags, $302.50. Grand total...
Those policies are a part of U.S. sartorial history. Brooks's famed trademark, the Golden Fleece, has long represented the height of stodgy male fashion. Brooks No. 1 Sack Coat has long been the high-buttoned, conservative uniform of the high-buttoned, conservative gentleman...
...week's end, after a strenuous round of protracted farewells, the Athlones were whisked off to Washington in a Liberator bearing Canada's coat of arms and flying the blue standard. At the airport, an R.C.A.F. band played Will Ye No Come Back Again? Their last glimpse of Canada: Prime Minister Mackenzie King doffing his hat to lead the crowd in three cheers and a tiger...
That settled it. For the sake of proctors' dignity, there had to be a way to distinguish G.I.s studying at Bull College, Cambridge, from mere G.I. sightseers. Soon the Bull boys were wearing a special patch on their lower right sleeves-a coat of arms featuring the Stars & Stripes, the Union Jack, the Cambridge Lions, the American Eagle and the Bull of Bull College. Master Sergeant Al Kohler, an inveterate doodler, hit on the design...