Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime head of National City Bank, wearing a short black coat, grey striped trousers, handkerchief in breast pocket, his granite jaw set, his fierce eyes peering intently from beneath his big brow crowned with a stiff brush of upstanding grey hair, was on trial for alleged evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president...
...rivaled by pistol-toting Cornelia Bryce Pinchot's fervor on behalf of working women & children. Early one morning last week at Northampton. Pa. a State car rolled up to the D & D Shirt Co. factory and out stepped Pennsylvania's First Lady, clad in a red corduroy coat, red hat. Pinned on Airs. Pinchot's coat was a streamer labeled: STRIKER. At the head of a cheerful crowd of factory girls she marched round & round the D & D plant, out of which the girls had walked several weeks ago because of low wages (3? an hour...
...their part to read the signs of the times. They opposed the Austrian-German Customs Union; yet that will surely come eventually, if it is not already existent in fact. They oppose German equality; yet no nation as strong as Germany can permanently be regarded as inferior. The coat cut in 1918 is no longer in fashion. Economic and political forces are breaking it at every seam. MacDonald's thesis seems right: it is better to redesign this coat in a peaceful manner than wait for a duel to kill the owner and his neighbors...
...years ago to anyone who could beat Napoleon. The present Duke, still a fervent foxhunter at 84, is the grandson of the Iron Duke, was three years old when the latter died. The title Duke of Wellington and the right to bear the Union Jack on his coat of arms is but a small part of his inheritance. He is a Duke in Portugal, a Prince in Holland and recipient of a $20,000-a-year pension from the Belgian government. Ciudad Rodrigo, scene of one of his grandfather's great victories and centre of the Spanish estates thrust...
Young Tommy Adair is a purebred English bulldog, son of a grand champion. Some day he may know the feel of smooth green carpet under his feet, the glare of arc lights, the eyeing of solemn experts who may award him ribbons and medals for his form, coat, stance, carriage. But already he has won a prize-in Ocean City, N. J. one day last week-simply for being so appallingly, truculently ugly...