Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November 1923 occurred the famous Beer Putsch, when Adolf Hitler in a black frock coat, scowling over his smudge of a mustache, marched into the biggest beer garden in Munich, the "Burgerbraukeller," and proclaimed the National Socialist Revolution. There was a riot in the Odeonplatz. Adolf Hitler fled to the mountain village of Uffing and took refuge in the cottage of a devoted follower: Ernst Fritz Hanfstaengel, Harvard 1909, one-time Manhattan art dealer...
...royal Christmas dinner in the Wonderland of Leverett House, the sacred and revered silver rabbit with his red ribbon vanished completely. What hare-brained knave committed the theft or what his motives were in taking the stuffed specimen of "lepus timidus," who with his younger brothers decorates the coat of arms of the house of Leverett, is a mystery which even the Red Queen would not be able to solve...
...famous Bunny Leverett arrived on December 6. It was on the occasion of the first annual Christmas Dinner that he hopped down from his position on the coat of arms in the yellow dining room and scampered up the middle of the floor to the table where the Master and tutors were sitting, waiting for an opportunity to open the celebrations. Within a second the clever beast was on the table, peering around at the occupants of the room with visible embarrassment. As if inspired, K. B. Murdock '16, Master of the House, rose to the occasion, doing his duty...
Joyous Jim, who clings to the coat tails of his great & good friend the Prime Minister (having bolted with him out of the Labor Party), was bluntly told last week (reputedly by Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain) that he could not junket about the world at British taxpayers' expense...
...Muriel Vanderbilt Phelps put on her ocelot coat and went out on the lawn of her estate at Middletown, R.I. to bestow the prize (a live turkey) for a charity treasure hunt; to squeal in glee with 500 other socialites while a horde of urchins from Middletown, Newport and neighboring villages chased and caught two small, frightened, buttered pigs...