Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What if some guest should come in and see every body draped around in his shirt sleeves. I'll keep my coat on, and besides, there's a chair over here by the window where I won't be within six feet of anyone else...
...Wranowitz, Czechoslovakia, Anton Smula bet drinking companions that he dared enter a cemetery, filch a wreath from a new grave. Next morning Anton Smula was found dead in the cemetery, his coat caught in a picket fence...
...irritation, rattles here program violently. None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first-class Irish setter...
...receive before a throne which is to be an exact copy of the one used in the Coronation. The purple ermine robe and the gold scepter, symbols of the British Empire, will decorate the throne, and above it will hang a canopy and a large replica of the British coat of arms...
...adjourned by public oral announcement to rooms in the division superintendent's office." At that point Mr. Abbott muttered: "Adjournment is now taken.'' Picking up his brief case, he stalked into the offices, looked around for an empty desk, hung up his hat and coat, got out more documents. No one paid any attention. He had 14 parcels of property to offer. At the end of each description he said: "How much am I offered for properties described and constituting parcel so-&-so?" The clerks did not even look up. After a pause Mr. Abbott would...