Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this sort of unmannerly exuberance be reconciled with the fact that suits are de rigeur in eastern classrooms, that formal dress means white tie and tail coat on most eastern campi, that exclusive prep schools furnish a majority of the entering undergraduates...
...whose brain has been removed, can still show his master how gallant, how thoughtful a lover he can be to the soft white beauty who builds a nest of newspapers in the desk. Vicious, the little green parrot, loves to lie under the Doctor's coat when he goes to the symphony; warm and still, she chews his tie, his shirt. Only once, frightened at something, did she begin to talk. The man sitting next the Doctor thought he was making that remarkable noise. The Doctor covered Vicious, let the man think...
...modestly disappeared. Boss Cermak, after ordering him back over the telephone, explained : "He says he'll come when he gets damn good & ready. I guess that proves I'm not his boss." Later Nominee Horner returned to be photographed but objected when cameramen ordered: "Take off your coat-shake your fists-hold your hands above your head." Mayor Cermak tried to get him to comply. When he still refused, Boss Cermak again loudly boasted that his nominee was unbossed. At last they photographed little Harry Horner sitting in a corner eating his toast...
...Census Bureau, later the chair of the Federal Trade Commission. Late in entering the Senatorial contest of 1918, he won over his two opponents when he produced a letter of endorsement from President Wilson. Enemies thereafter accused him of "riding to Washhigton on Woodrow Wilson's coat tails...
...pulp." At Alexandria, still only 13. Fearon watches a cancan dance, fascinated, repulsed, wavering. His return a day later results in his catching syphilis. He would drown himself, but he is too weak to leap overboard. The end comes when the captain himself, sympathetic, smothers him in his great coat...