Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexis' friends explained variously that he has either been baptized a Christian, renounced Islam or never seriously practiced any religion. Last week, after buying the last of the most expensive trousseau Paris has seen in years, including $180 worth of silk stockings and a $6,000 ermine coat Miss Hutton announced...
...lush string passage one arm will suddenly take the form of a violin while he plays on it with the other. He stands erect for staccato effects, hunches his head forward and fairly plucks the quick, short notes from out the instruments. He takes his crescendoes with hair and coat tails flying...
...ladies' man, picked her up one day in a hotel lobby, she was thrilled. Author Woodward makes Larry a far-from-attractive specimen, tacitly defends himself by intimating that women's tastes are unaccountable. Some of Larry's more honeyed speeches: "Say, dear, give me your coat. . . . Please rise a moment, will you, dear? . . . You golden-voiced gal. . . . How about a little loving?" Evelyn thought he was just irresistible, yielded herself with hardly a struggle. It was not long, however, before she discovered he was a bad number. When he threatened blackmail she shot him. Another woman...
...than 400 saints: Simeon Stylites, who lived 38 years on a pillar, at first 9 ft., at last 60 ft. high. Sebastian, who was shot full of arrows but (according to Author Wescott's account) recovered and was beaten to death. Gothard, absent-minded Alpine hermit, hung his coat on a sunbeam; the obliging beam waited till the coat was removed, then hurried after the setting sun. When Agnes of Monte Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise yourself; and despise being...
...with the Cleveland Orchestra. Next winter Sokoloff will not be conducting in Cleveland's imposing new Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Nor will his Connecticut farm be an undisturbed haven this summer. Italian laborers were jabbering all over the grounds one afternoon last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work, too. Violinist Ruth Breton, wearing white gloves, was given a sickle to manipulate. Ample Soprano Emily Roosevelt,* dressed up in chiffon, was given a hoe. Tenor Mario...