Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well known. . . As I entered the park I was accosted by a young woman, and we sat down upon two chairs placed under a tree at some distance from the public walk. . . I engaged her in conversation, and later, when she said she was hard up, I unbottoned my coat for the purpose of getting out a few shillings and giving them to her. . . At that moment the police officer who has just testified fairly charged down upon...
...President, going to his office the day before Christmas, inspected the bundles piled up for him. Some few interested him. In spite of "Don't Open Until Christmas," he ripped them open and peeped. Mrs. Coolidge received for Christmas a fur coat made of caracul from Austria, platinum fox from Russia. The Fur Manufacturers and Merchants Association was the donor. Colonel John C. Coolidge at Plymouth, Vt., received a box of Christmas edibles from the White House, not to mention about 50 Christmas cards from friends...
...Newark, N. J., a little man named Gustave Zobel, 70, stood in an artificial beard and a preposterous red coat, on a street corner, ringing a small bell. By performing this simple act for a certain number of hours every day he earned enough money for food and bed. Why it should give joy to anyone to see him standing in the cold wind tinkling a dinner clapper was more than Mr. Zobel could determine, but since The Volunteers of America were ready to pay for such mummery, it was not his part to find fault. He attracted a good...
...bell trousers or raccoon coat, not in three-cornered hat or prismatic necktie, but like a well-dressed politician in spats, Mr. Nicholas Longworth received a solemn delegation of men, all of whom he acknowledged as his brothers. They brought him a little wooden thing. Mr. Longworth smirked appreciatively and thrust out a hand interlocking his fingers with theirs in a way that is not to be described in public. Then one of his four brothers gave vent to speech...
...down in front of Reuben's restaurant on Upper Broadway, Manhattan, struts a big black man in a longtail coat. He is John Lester Johnson, sparring partner of many fighters, who once was drubbed by Jack Dempsey. Now his life is free and easy; he looks the white folks over as they pass through the door, keeps out the trashy ones, lets in the hungry ones, bows to the haughty ones, spreads his smile. Last week, while he stood displaying his buttons, a taxicab snarled down the street and stopped before him. Doorman Johnson helped two people out, waited...