Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This from one whose capital is increasing $2,000 per day or thereabouts struck the merriest possible note in Scotland. Cheerfully the King, in sleek long coat and bowler, set out to repeat in Glasgow slums the sort of famed house-to-house tour he made as Edward of Wales through the bleak, starveling Welsh collieries and "Depressed Areas...
Every telephone in Tokyo was dead, every street car still, and amid the snow Japanese soldiers with their greatcoats buttoned over the divisional numbers on their collars looked all alike. Scared as rabbits, Japanese civilians learned by grapevine rumor that, if a coat blew open revealing its wearer to be of the First or Third Regiment of the Tokyo Division, he was probably one of the dastards and not a regular army man. With the Empire cut off from the world as Japanese censors clamped down on cables and radio, the August Land of the Rising Sun or Dai Nippon...
...other matters, woudn't think of stepping in until the fight is well begun. A future Gibbon may reckon up the causes of the fall of two great empires to a nicety, without, however, finding either nation supposedly barbarous. But contemporary Americans can do little more than keep their coat-tails clear, and ignore, impartially, the lulling sing-song of Japanese apologists and the siren, two-toned voice of Russia...
...ideal workman" has the face of Artist Biddle's brother Francis, onetime Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. Mrs. George Biddle is drinking coffee with Malcolm Ross, pressagent for the NLRB. Edward P. Rowan, Chief of the Treasury's Painting & Sculpture Section, is hanging up his coat. For the Attorney General's office Artist Leon Kroll did a mural sketch of "Triumphant Justice," which observers last week thought they could identify as liberal Justice Harlan F. Stone...
Seeing schools, post offices, jails and town halls gay as Jacob's coat with Government murals, railroads, banks, saloons and department stores have caught the fever and commissioned hundreds of private murals of their own. In the supplement, TIME presents a cross-section of the murals, public & private, now being erected in this country. Their only common denominator is the desire to say something definite about the U. S., to get away from vapid allegory and Artist Gilbert White's ladies in cheesecloth...