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Word: coatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy shirt front, resembles more than he does Windsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...vote, the House amazingly and resoundingly approved Mr. McCormack's amendment-to empty the third basket by striking it out of the bill -by a vote of 165 to 126. Disconcerted, Mr. Doughton asked for a teller count. This time, as more members appeared from the coat rooms, the vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Empty Basket | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...story has appeared in a Boston paper of a student who rose from his table in a Harvard Square restaurant and walked toward the door. As he passed the manager a silver sugar bowl clanked to the floor from under his coat. He turned calmly toward the occupants behind him. "Ruffians," he said, "who threw that ?" and walked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

COMING out of Harvard 1 yesterday a sturdy youth, who had finally yielded as much as to wear a coat to class, said in unmistakable terms that hard as it was to find an empty seat, if was worse to find room for his coat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

Today Bill McGovern sometimes fright ens Chicago moppets by walking along the city streets in a Persian shepherd's coat and peaked Astrakhan hat. He goes to tea in a frock coat, striped trousers, blue shirt and yellow shoes, wears the same shoes with tails to the opera. Because the uni versity forbids smoking in classrooms, he holds his seminars at home, where he can smoke his big-bowled, curved-stem pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Traveling Man | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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