Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have learned much about life. That's all now. I'm through." On his 100th birthday anniversary the City of Buffalo, N. Y. accepted a bust of Grover Cleveland which had been rejected 52 years ago because the sculptor had left off one of the coat buttons...
Unlocking the lab door, the professor proceeded us into the room screaming "Franklin, Franklin", at the top of his professorial lungs. Franklin poked his nose out from behind a can of refuse, exhibiting his magnificently scarred coat of fur and his blood clotted ears, fresh from the back alley arenas of Boston's catdom. Grabbing the beast by the nape, our host handed him to us to hold--unpleasant, because Frankie's claws were sharp as steel and busy every second. The professor meanwhile doused a cotton wad in ether on which to deposit the beast...
...George Apleys and their wives seem to think they are being made game of. Certainly neither the nice Mr. Santayana nor even Mr. Marquand meant to do that. They were merely showing them off, as one shows a most prized heirloom. George Apley, with his five-button coat, is to America as the Breton peasant woman with her super-headdress is to France; perhaps some day he too will adorn the pages of the National Geographic on the dentist's waiting-room table...
...Merchant Tailors' Designers Association's choice of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Best Dressed Man in the U. S. shocked President Raymond G. Twyeffort of the National Association of Merchant Tailors. As to the President's famed grey morning coat which delighted the M.T.D.A., N.A.M.T.'s Twyeffort declared: "He violated all rules by wearing that suit. . . . Not even the President of the U. S. is permitted to depart from conformity...
Yesterday into historic Harvard 2 the professor strode with formal, graceful steps. No hat or coat marred the trim lines of his figure; his neat tie, neat shirt, neat suit were the envy of his students...