Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radical innovation in uniform, we are told is not to be in effect for the games. Shorts may go over for tennis but there are those who demand no less than a fur coat for the late fall games...
...Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris to follow the new star. Morris was so enchanted with medievalism that he got an Oxford blacksmith to forge him a suit of armor. When he lowered the helmet's visor it stuck and he had to be extricated; but the coat of mail he wore the whole day and would not even take it off for dinner. The Brotherhood's enthusiasm was sometimes greater than their thoroughness. Commissioned by Ruskin to fresco the walls of the new Oxford Union, they went to work with a will on the damp plaster...
...habit of wearing, and if it is your pleasure to add this improvement to your already generous contribution if you will then return the portrait, express collect, we will send you our thoughts respecting the picture as a whole. "Our friends think that if the lines of the coat were a little more clearly defined. . . ." At the bottom of the letter was a tracing of a stickpin with the note, "This is the exact size of Mr. Rockefeller's stick-pin- without diamond." Artist Matsakas profited from these criticisms and two weeks later sent the revised portrait to Florida...
...Tribune; by his own hand or the act of an unknown assailant; near Coshocton. He had been missing for three days when campers found his body in the Muskingum River, with baling wire wrapped about the ankles and shoulders, a 4-lb. plowpoint and a small hammer inside the coat, type slugs in the pockets, bruises about the head...
Last week Pan American's long-legged technical adviser, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jaunting across the North Atlantic with his Wife Anne to survey a transoceanic route for Pan American, arrived in Copenhagen in an Eskimo fur coat. When cheering Danes nearly swamped his red-bodied, white-winged Lockheed in Copenhagen harbor, he took off again, came down in the sanctity of the naval airport...