Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty the King, I offer my most cordial greetings to the first citizen of the United States. Canada welcomes you, sir. . . ." Next greeter was Premier Mackenzie King, roundheaded little sociologist, one-time student at Harvard and resident of Chicago's Hull House, who wore a pale-grey morning coat and grey topper, and looked as if he were on his way to the races at Ascot. Said the Dominion's real No. 1 man: "Today we are indebted to your visit for yet another symbol of international peace, friendship and goodwill. In the three centuries and more...
...last week British kings have always appeared at such functions in resplendent uniform. Edward VIII wore a dark grey morning coat. Though rain soon began to patter, ladies whose expensive garden frocks were being ruined remained so obviously eager to drop their curtsies to His Majesty anyhow that he permitted them to continue until presentees began entering the durbar tent in sopping and sodden condition...
...prayer, offered to take the lad free to his Old Stone School at nearby Darlington. William worked his way through Washington College, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, branched out as a schoolmaster. Hired in 1826 by fledgling Miami, he arrived on his horse, in a sombre black coat and stovepipe hat, his saddlebags bulging with Livy, Horace, Ovid, Xenophon...
...members of Britain's present Government Cartoonist Low presents as sly and hardened gangsters. Thus Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, a derby pulled far down on his head, his coat collar up, a blackjack in one hand, faces the reader saying, "You know you can trust me." In the dark background the League of Nations lies slugged and dazed...
...home in Paddington. Author of a series of articles entitled Unmoral Girls, Vacuum Cleaner Vampires, Is Nudism Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon. At 9 o'clock that morning a pair of Scotland Yard detectives dropped around to talk to Herbalist McMahon, but he had already left the house...