Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This amounted to suggesting that the Government run to cover, hide behind the long black skirts of Dr. Schacht's frock coat. Such a plan did not please HINDENBURG. Wrathfully he told Herr Brüning to take the Finance Ministry himself, bade him clean out a sty of ineptitude which he should have smelled and disinfected long...
Editor Straus persuaded Violinist Jacques Gordon ($1,000 per concert) of the Chicago Symphony to make the experiment. In smoked glasses, matted grey wig. tattered frock coat, Fiddler Gordon posted himself at a busy Michigan Avenue corner, fiddled for 30 minutes on his $40,000 Stradivarius. Pennies, nickels, dimes from passersby totalled...
...Cincinnati where he makes his home. His favorite indulgence is Maillard's caramels with which his pockets are always and everywhere supplied, also his desks, hall tables, offices. He last year shocked a formal Procter & Gamble convention dinner by appearing with an old grey sweater under his coat in place of a waistcoat...
...royal box high up in the stand, the King leaned forward; the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester had their glasses up. The Queen in a long coat and beige hat looked bored. They had come ready for rain, but now, as the horses turned into the stretch the sun broke through and laid a yellow span on the midway-a span that moved like a pacemaker in front of the chasing horses with the tiny bright-colored jockeys pressed against their necks. The crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared...
...described as a fierce beast, combining the worst features of a rhinoceros -and a wild ass, and as a gentle little creature, the symbol of purity, Dr. Shepard discovered yet another version. His animal, a vague, almost holy myth comes c'oser to the heraldic unicorn which adorns the coat-of-arms of British rulers. This animal, kind, brave and beautiful, was a tragic figure, betrayed on every hand by his beneficiary...