Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puerto Escocés. The San Blas Indians occasionally breed a blond child. When the San Blas and Choco medicine men want to carve a really imposing fetish on a medicine cane, they give long-nosed William Paterson a waistcoat, shirt, necktie, collar, buttons, striped trousers, paint his coat black or green...
When his three chief revolutionists arrived in Biloxi, Miss., on the Zemurray yacht one cold December night in 1910 on their way to Honduras, Samuel Zemurray went below and cooked a dinner for Manuel Bonilla, next President of Honduras. He left his coat over the shoulders of shivering General Bonilla. Said he: ''Hell Manuel, I've shot the roll on you. I might as well shoot the coat too." He is now shooting his roll on United Fruit and few expect him to lose...
Realistically brown, wearing a baby-blue coat, red pants, patent leather boots and spurs, Tibbett sat himself insolently on a red plush throne, put his feet up on the arm, began magnificently to impersonate Emperor Jones. In soft, natural Negro dialect, perfectly suited to the smooth, dark color of his voice, he boasted about how he had fooled the natives, telling them that only a silver bullet could kill him. He boasted about his record back in the States where he had killed two men. broken jail. Then Smithers told him about the savages on the hill. They were molding...
...role as Lien Wha but she manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings. He gives out a few aphorisms left over from his performances as Charlie Chan and wears his hair in a braid so long that it serves as a queue for the most exciting scene...
...office which is about 30 minutes traveling distance from home. For almost two years she does clerical work about seven and a half hours a day. five and a half days a week. She wears the usual type of clothing, including lightweight hose and underwear, and a heavy coat which her parents are satisfied is adequate. Throughout her life she has a good appetite and does not diet. She is regarded as a fairly quiet 'home girl,' who does not keep irregular hours and averages between eight and nine hours sleep a night...