Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money for remodeling a fur coat, tries to get Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets $25,000 for the movie rights, spurns Clarisse, marries Delia. Papa Kadan is further gratified when his stupid son Bert, an amateur boxer, marries the daughter of his wealthy business rival. Less amusing than...
...twinkled around the ring, dark eyes snapping, white coat curried and brushed to a glistening alabaster (see cuts), Spicypiece looked every ounce her name. The crowd cheered and clapped when the judge, towering George S. West of Chestnut Hill, Mass., looked her way, held its breath while he eyed and handled the others. The suspense was soon over...
...frontier without having his luggage opened by Red customs guards. "That is quite unnecessary, Mr. Davies," beamed the Ogpu official, "in your case." Jouncing on for 15 hours to Moscow, Ambassador & Mrs. Davies were met by Soviet and U. S. Embassy officials in high hats and sleek great coats, shivering in 14-below-zero cold which would have made fur caps and untidy bearskins more comfortable. A dozen Red cameramen snapped the Davieses, and off they roared through streets cleared by Stalin's orders to their palace. It was evident that the Dictator, having badly muffed and antagonized...
Tabor, a science instructor at Episcopal Academy who, wearing a skating cap and sheepskin coat, "shoots" on fair nights from 7 o'clock to n. Dr. I. M. Levitt of Franklin Institute comes out every day to make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type...
Meanwhile another branch of the University hierarchy is combing the woods for the snatch artist who broke into the door before it was fixed. Microscopic work on the picture reveal that both the coat and sweater that are visible were purchased in a Southern city, probably Atlanta, Georgia, and it is claimed that the culprit is already known and can save himself several years if he will give himself up quietly...