Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, resplendent in a costume consisting of a red coat, white pants and a white cap, this amazingly ubiquitous character climbed unnoticed onto the speakers' platform at Detroit. As Radiorator Coughlin was loudly explaining the difference between Communism and Christianity, nimble Woody Hockaday showered him with feathers, deftly sidestepped a punch the priest aimed at him, shouted into the microphone: "You can't mix religion and politics!" While Peaceman Hockaday was being hauled off to a cell, Father Coughlin regained his composure, continued his address, feathers fluttering with every gesture...
...thousands who sat in Mark Hopkins' classes only a scant 250 lived to journey to Williamstown for his Centenary. Those oldsters remembered him as a great, gaunt, Lincolnesque figure striding under the Williamstown elms in frock coat and top hat, carrying a gold-headed cane. Or they recalled his classes in moral philosophy, when he wrote their names on slips of paper, stuffed them in a pill box and drew them out, one by one, for the order of recitation. Few could remember much more. Reflected Williams' President Tyler Dennett last week: "In stitutions have many...
...Brivio, whose motor had overheated on the last ten miles just enough to cost him second place, Nuvolari paused at the end of the track to get Cup, first prize, and an extra $3,000 in lap money. Then he jogged slowly back to the pits, put on a coat, drove away in a medium-priced U. S. sedan...
...frank. When I saw about 40 hunched and helmeted figures charge out on the field my first instinct was to fly. They all looked like an Australian desperado named Ned Kelly. This gentleman was a bush ranger (first cousin to a gangster), who, in the last century, acquired a coat of chain mail, made himself a helmet out of a kerosene tin, and terrified the Australian bush by daring feats of robbery and violence...
...card will be necessary to gain admittance but this can be obtained without coat either at the Church during the day or at Parish House...