Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small Marshal Chang used to be small General Ma is the terror of a General Staff composed exclusively of tall, strapping, exceedingly respectful Chinese officers. They bent their large bodies over staff maps last week while General Ma in silken house slippers but wearing a fur-collared military great coat affably received Correspondent...
...illegal salt march through India 19 months ago carried him last week up the crimson-carpeted stair of Buckingham Palace. Flunkies in scarlet & gold bowed the small, unrepentant lawbreaker into the Picture Gallery. There at the head of the receiving line stood George V in striped trousers and morning coat, Queen Mary in a shimmering silver tea gown and Edward of Wales (who had flown down especially from Liverpool) dressed like his father. The Lord Cham berlain, the Earl of Cromer, advanced through a horde of 500 tea guests, some of them Maharajas wearing pearls as big as butterballs...
Photographers who admire the work of Dr. Erich ("Candid Camera") Salomon (TIME, Nov. 9), realize with what enormous handicaps silky-whiskered Mathew Brady had to contend. In his jolting little wagon, with his enormous chicken coop of a camera, he had to coat his plates with collodion, expose and develop them before they had time to dry. Minie balls crashed through his little developing wagon, his horses were killed, hundreds of plates were smashed, yet he took troops in action, dead soldiers sprawled in the breastworks. He took Lincoln, Grant, most of the Federal generals of the war, and made...
...Miss Britton's claims against President Harding. After the first day Elizabeth Ann was sent out of the court room. Later Judge Killits barred the public and the press lest the evidence "corrupt public morals." Miss Britton, calm and demure, wearing a white blouse, brown skirt and caracul coat, sat very still while Grant Mouser, defense attorney, branded her tale as false and read chapter after chapter from the two books to prove it. Once Miss Britton passed a handkerchief over her face when Lawyer Mouser, his grey hair disheveled with excitement charged that she had neglected utterly...
...There isn't any romance in the studios any more. All the good sculptors are married and their wives are always wandering into the studio looking for things. Anyway sculptors are very businesslike. They are so used to nudes. I suppose you would have to wear a fur coat to excite them. It gives you a feeling like you was made of clay...