Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Governor Roosevelt made his rabble-rousing "forgotten man" speech, Mr. Smith at a Jefferson Day dinner in Washington answered it: "I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses." Mr. Smith also supplied the country with a full-length platform on debt revision, pub lic works, taxation, economy, Prohibition. He was vividly acclaimed for straight thinking, plain speaking. As his popularity rose, he heard on all sides that he and he alone could win the election. The demand for his nomination reached...
...Rock is the site of an oldtime Indian trading post which fires Poet Ryan's imagination. One day lately he was observed at this site, a quiet spot in the woods. His yellow Rolls-Royce (with burnished metal bonnet) was parked nearby. He was clad in a coonskin coat with Daniel Boone cap to match, sitting on the ground trapper-style, thoughtfully making a little camp fire...
...know where I was taking her. I told her I was going to carry her to an ambulance and she replied: 'I know what you are going to do.' ... I carried her out and put her in the hole. I placed some quilts, a blanket and her coat in the hole and put a dish pan over her head. Then I filled up the hole with dirt and the next day I put a concrete floor in the hen coop...
...return the salute. At the count of one, Shannon fired and Cash felt a hot blow on his cheek—the sand kicked up by Shannon's bullet. At the count of two, Cash fired, saw a white spot against Shannon's black coat precisely where he had aimed, but Shannon stood firm. Cash was beginning to think he had been cheated when Shannon stepped forward, turned, staggered, fell dead. Around these facts tens of thousands of words of hot South Carolinian dispute have whirled ever since...
Baritone Lawrence Sibbett will make himself a flat, broad nose next season. He will clap on a kinky black wig, cork hi. face. He will wear scarlet breeches, light blue coat, patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet...