Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul Bern. She had received $250 a month from Bern. On the day following Bern's suicide Dorothy Millette left the Plaza Hotel, boarded the river-steamer Delta King for Sacramento. When the ship ar rived Dorothy Millette was not on board. Her cabin was empty. Her coat and shoes were on deck. Near them was a bag which might have concealed a bathing suit. Police busied themselves with dragging the river. . . . Few days later San Francisco police found another bag, left behind by Miss Millette. It contained friendly letters from Paul Bern and his secretary, wishing...
...great, wooden-floored warehouse is neatly piled with bunches of tobacco leaves. Buyers inspect them, fingering them, and measuring them with their eyes. The auctioneer, at one end of the room, starts to chant. Coat off, hat on the back of his head, hands on his hips, he sways to the rhythmic rise and fall of his cry. "Hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben," is the way it sounds if you have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention...
...went to Princeton University between 1921 and 1925 has forgotten a hard-muscled youth who came down from Alaska with shaggy black hair, shy grey eyes, a fighter's chin, a wolfskin coat, a rich baritone voice and much musical talent. Robert M. ("Bob") Crawford entered Princeton with a little money he had earned as a surveyor in Alaska. He worked his way in a bicycle shop and a Ford service station. He led the University Orchestra. He became president of the Glee Club. He composed for and sang in the Triangle Club's shows, including The Scarlet...
...Shelly, 76, swung on to his horse, fixed a shiny oldtime stovepipe hat on his head, put a perky cigar in his mouth, and posed for a moment. Except for frock coat and saddle medicine bags, that was the way he rode into Mulvane 52 years ago, a year after its founding. Laughed he last week: "I had 45? in my pocket then." Now he has a big house in Mulvane, a wife and four children (the son is Dr. Hargus Gerard Shelly, 51, of Wichita), and a practice which still requires night calls...
...pink shirtfront, a rose or orchid in his lapel, light-colored gloves with black points. Even in summer, for fear of catching cold, he wore a heavy pelisse. An impressed English visitor to Paris said that Proust was "really the only man I ever saw dining in a fur coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist...