Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Leigh Colvin, wife of the Prohibition Party's national chairman, began by dumping out a suitcase containing a bottle of milk, a doll, a bunch of grapes, an orange, a pair of baby shoes, a baby's coat, a pair of bedroom slippers. Flourishing a small Christmas wreath, she exclaimed: "If father gets his glass of beer by Christmas, the family will have to give up these things...
...flower casting the mold preparation is brushed on the flower coat by delicate coat, the mold toasted and the flower ash cleaned out with hot mercury as usual...
Just, however, as there would be something incongruous in Dink Stover's making his hideous blunder of giving two girls a lift in a straight-eight roadster, so Frank will look just a thought uncomfortable in the polo coat and pleated trousers of contemporary collegiate fashion. While he flourished mightily in an era when undergraduates sat along the campus fence and sang "Integer Vitae" and "Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more...
Earle Martin went rummaging last week for his old alpaca coat and soiled straw hat. On & off for 25 years they were part of his uniform as a newspaper editor. The coat was comfortable. Tho hat, worn winter & summer (with occasional changes for a battered felt), kept pressroom grime from the editor's bald pate. Now, after four years of blue serge and spotless linen as a Chamber of Commerce executive, he would need his old accoutrements again. He had just been hired as editor of the Cleveland News...
...Champs Elysées in Paris, on the third anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...