Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago. That afternoon he and Miss Googins, refreshed by a swim, were married by a retired Congregationalist minister (the Roosevelts are Episcopalians), on the Swiler lawn overlooking the Mississippi. The bride wore white georgette crepe. The groom, who also received a ring, wore flannel trousers, camel's hair coat. Five hundred neighbors gaped through the shrubbery, but only the bride's family and Mrs. Dall attended the ceremony. Police arrested a Chicago cameraman, broke his plates when he tried to photograph the wedding...
Within the tiers which stretched away into darkness there was sudden scurry, footsteps and the flare of a match. A great figure huddled in a great coat escaped into the shadow. Another match flared, a shaded flashlight swept the long aisles, and in the half-light a face distorted with fear of discovery shot out of the darkness like some hideous appartion in a nightmare. Suddenly there was a dead silence, and then a muttered "ah." Back in the musty corridors there was a swishing sound and slowly a black object appeared. The figure walked back and forth dragging heavy...
...Rome last week. He called on Italy's King Victor Emanuel and Premier Benito Mussolini, afterwards confided to the Press: "Premier Mussolini asked for the pin I wore on my hat and I pinned it on his lapel. I offered the King the one I had on my coat and pinned it on his lapel. He said he was very proud to wear it." Thus Vice-Commander Eas terwood thought he had made Italy's King and Premier honorary members of the American Legion...
Matches like these-to say nothing of the coat with a fur collar which Queen Mary wore on even the warmest days- gave spectators at the All-England tennis tournament last week enough to look at before the final. But it was the final, between Vines and Crawford, with Vines favored to win, that produced the longest, loudest cheers that anyone could remember at Wimbledon...
...companies. For American Can is no longer a trust but merely the biggest concern in a competitive field. Thus the present tin plate boom is in reality a tin can boom, for as every one knows tin cans are not made of tin but of sheet steel thinly coated with tin. Exports have soared with the slumping dollar. Nearly 20,000,000 lb. of oil tins were recently ordered for the Far East where after the oil is used they are freely bought & sold for homebuilding, wagon repairs and other purposes. In the U. S. can-makers' inventories...