Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was so far off their reservation that the business congressmen fairly purpled. Up jumped the National Association of Manufacturers' General Counsel James A. Emery. Smoothing his morning coat and adjusting his Adam's apple to his wing collar, he cried in rebuttal...
...Minute" is a delightful farce starring Roger Pryor and Leila Hyams. Roger undertakes to spend $1,000 a minute for twelve hours, to settle a bet between two plutocrats. A yacht, a race horse, a Duesenberg, a mastiff, an elephant, a Trans-continental airplane, a $30,000 fur coat, and sundry other trivial bring the story to the point where Roger has to have $50,000 to buy a tube of radium (a gift to a hospital) and has a capital of only...
...Mayors, like New York's, have frequently been in hot water. That passionate pinochle player, plump little Mayor Gustav Boess. for example, was ignominiously hauled back from a junket to the U. S. six years ago when it was discovered that his wife had accepted an expensive fur coat from some outfitters who got city contracts for hospital uniforms (TIME...
Upon his own testimony, he carefully concealed evidence, the polo coat and the note, which he considered of great importance. Upon his own testimony he took but fifteen minutes in which to complete his complicated investigation of five people. His "anything you say will be held against you" attitude in dealing with George is uncomfortably reminiscent of the methods of the blustering sergeant. And this is the basis of his recommendation for George's arrest. His conduct of the case and his testimony in court are a disgrace to Harvard...
Probably the first people in Heaven who recognized the stocky man in the morning coat and pin-striped trousers were some onetime residents of Kansas City who were singing Brighten the Corner Where You Are. They had expected that sooner or later Billy Sunday would walk briskly in. Nor were they surprised when Billy Sunday strode up to Jesus Christ, shook Him by the hand and said: "Jesus, thank you. I'm glad you honored me with salvation. I'm glad you honored me with the privilege of preaching your gospel. . . . Now, Jesus, I'd like...