Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brewster: I did not confine it to this Administration. If the gentleman makes the application, that is up to him. It is a question of the coat fitting...
Smitty's Tack* Room, showing the jockey's iron bed, saddle & bridle on a peg, table with empty beer bottles, and the cheap fur coat and red slippers of one of Smitty's girlfriends...
...throw something," John McPhee, Scottish inspector of Shanghai police, related afterward. "I watched a blur coming toward me. The object hit the ground and rolled between my feet. I pushed a Japanese civilian away and turned around just as the object exploded. A piece of shrapnel cut through my coat and hit my police card. I'm pretty lucky. I thought I was a goner...
...goes well, Clara Howard, with arms and head freed, will have a skin that is scarred and puckered but whole. John too will be permanently scarred but this thought did not deter him from volunteering. His mother, who takes roomers, promised to reward him with $20 and a new coat. But last week she took sick and the $20 went for doctor's bills. "Aw, that's all right, mom," said John...
...fact that they are obviously reminiscenses and true stories with only a light coat of fiction and that some of them were written for Collier's and Red Book Magazine, makes it possible to judge them not as creative literary efforts...