Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand, and do amazing tricks at the trainer's command. But as Billy seemed so restless, Vag moved on into the big arena, to see the real show. Just as the sound of music, cracking whips, pistol shots, and cannons came to his car, Billy plucked at his coat. "Gee, I don't feel so good. Let's sit down a while. I don't want to go in there yet." On the very threshold of the promised land, Vag found himself frustrated. Muttering grimly about "a pesky younger brother," he sat down on a bench. But Billy, instead...
...When Japan tried to force the conquered areas of China to trade only with her, Chinese merchants literally strapped their goods to their bellies, tucked them in their coat sleeves, packed them in false-bottomed baskets-and smuggled them out to the same old customers...
...When he did go out for an evening, it was not with Minneapolis' dowagers but with some fiddler or bassoonist from his own orchestra. A devout Greek Orthodox Catholic, he wore a crucifix inside his shirt and a medallion of the Virgin Mary in the lining of his coat, never ventured to conduct without them both. When he was not conducting or studying scores, he could usually be found in the gallery of a Nicollet Avenue cinema theatre...
...found her hands cold and clammy. They gave her wine, but she spilled it on her white frock. After the dance they started to drive her to an address she gave. At a cemetery she asked to be let out of the car. One of the boys threw his coat over her shoulders, followed her into the graveyard. She vanished, he fell dead. Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months before. On the dead girl's grave, they found the dead boy's coat...
...London, Alice Thistle bought a coat, was 1) puzzled, 2) dismayed, 3) appalled by its pungent odor. Said she: "I suffered social embarrassment." Said her mother: "She sits and broods for hours." Said a doctor: "She is on the verge of a complete mental breakdown." Reason: When the coat was sent to the cleaners, a dead mouse was extracted from the collar...