Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great La Tour (Victor Jory), a pair of major league magicians, are apparently having a contest to see which one can trick the other. You will then be utterly mystified when the great La Tour is found stabbed to death; when a young man in a raccoon coat turns up under a collapsible couch; when two deformed characters, one of them only able to speak with his fingers, crawl through a window and try to drag off La Tour's corpse, which falls into a subterranean chamber full of canvas ghosts; and when a police sergeant solves...
...oozed around his thin shoes and covered over the spots he had neglected to polish. Now, as he turned down Plympton Street to the river, a hot draft of air singed his eyelashes, and as he passed the back doors of restaurants the smell of greases caught on his coat, till the next gust blew them off again, and he hurried on. At the river he would find a plot of grass from which he might dangle his feet into the water with no one to blame him for it. Often he had sat there in the Spring and watched...
...150th running of the race. To view it came King George in black morning coat and pin-striped trousers, Queen Mary in rose and beige. Nodding to lords & ladies, they marched ceremoniously to their box on the finish line, joined 300,000 countrymen in the cry: ''They...
...visit Parts, that "siren city" in his mother's eyes. Here under the guidance of will Rothenstein, he saw the world of Manet of the Meulin Rouge and of the restaurant Jupien which demonstrated its aristocratic patronage by a drawing of ladies and gentlemen hanging corenets on a coat-rack instead of hats...
...grave crisis threatens. . . . Municipal credit is about to collapse . . . municipal bonds are held by ... widows and orphans . . . the 65.000.000 people who live under our care. . . . We did not cause the depression. . . . We warn you ... city of the government. rapidly . . ." approaching collapse of Mayor Curley put back on his coat, clapped on his hat and, piling into a taxi with Mayors Hoan, Holcombe and Walmsley, ordered: ''To the White House." For 15 minutes President Roosevelt listened sympathetically to his callers, promised them nothing, advised them to go to the Treasury. Thither they drove to see Governor Black...