Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like a prestidigitator, Mr. Bennett produced a blue bag from his coat tails. Out of the bag came a big silver plate. Mr. Bennett handed it to Mr. Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin took out a red silk hankerchief. polished the plate carefully, slowly. A boy came in breathless with another blue bag containing another big silver plate. This plate Mr. Baldwin presented to Mr. Bennett. Mr. Baldwin then made a speech praising the weather. Mr. Havenga made a speech pointing out that nobody was under the illusion that he was going home with everything he wanted. Mr. Chatterjee made a speech...
...informally among his guests, eating a little here, a little there. Six Negroes, including Perry Howard and Mrs. Mary Booze, G. O. Politicians from Mississippi, strolled easily through the white throng. 4,000 Friends. After a quiet family dinner at the White House the President, clad in blue serge coat and white flannels, went to the D. A. R.'s Constitution Hall to deliver a speech opening his campaign for reelection. Some 4,000 admiring friends sat before him; countless millions listened over the largest political radio hook-up ever attempted (160 stations). When the Widow Roosevelt entered...
Through this frolicking crowd of plain people in shirt sleeves moved a tall lanky figure extending a friendly welcome to all. His smooth white hand shook many a hard and horny fist. Outwardly he was with this throng but plainly not of it. His blue coat and grey trousers were wrinkled but he wore a necktie. His hair, above a high intellectual forehead, was a silky grey but his pale blue eyes were young, fresh, benign. His manner with the masses was one of studied informality. Yet he was their particular idol, Norman Mattoon Thomas, Socialist nominee for the Presidency...
...listed in Burke's Landed Gentry one had to possess an estate of at least 1,000 acres and an authentic coat of arms. Recently Burke's reduced this requirement in view of the sale of so many estates. The new Burke's Landed Gentry includes many a name not up to the old standard. Even so it contains 1,000 names less than ten years...
...Ohio, while a delegation from Macon, Ga., waved flags. . . ." As a member of the Macon delegation in Akron on this occasion, I can say without reservation that no flags were waved. Only a ribbon inscribed, modestly enough, "MACON. In The Heart Of Georgia" graced the left lapel of the coat of each Maconian-for identification purposes. . . . Proud of the distinction of having the world's largest dirigible named for their home city, yes, but no flag wavers are Maconians...