Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world below. And that old chair is the Vagabond's true friend and was his father's father's friend. Live in a House and have the maid change and clean and handle the furniture at will? Friends need a friend's care. The Vagabond stays! And this coat: give up a garment which has served so well and so long. No. The Vagabond is a sentimentalist. New things, modern things will not pollute him; his is the richness of the past; his the luxuries only of the mind. Come Professors, warm over your courses. The Vagabond lives again...
Next day the royal party journeyed by way of Geneva to Budapest amid whose Gypsy dance clubs Mrs. Simpson, in a dinner coat of spun glass, first became notable as his partner (TIME, March 11). Last week the Hungarian Secret Service recalled that during his visit last year only the most strenuous efforts kept out of newsorgans the fact that H. R. H. amused himself some evenings by standing in his bedroom in the Hotel Dunapalota and breaking the electric light bulbs in a room opposite with well-aimed shots from his pistol...
While Premier Bennett anguished and Premier Aberhart communed at Detroit's Shrine of the Little Flower, an extremely tall, imposing British cleric in black gaiters and frock coat landed in Manhattan on his way to Alberta. As newshawks swarmed around him the very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, observed: "Newspapermen? Ah yes. Terrible people! You aren't usually so eager for a sermon. Well, this is my chance...
...cartoon to point up an accompanying editorial titled: "The Bankers Are a Funny Race." Emerging from a cyclone cellar in the cartoon was the pot-bellied figure with cane, cigar, spats and silk hat that traditionally represents the banker. The figure, however, wore neither pants nor coat and only the tattered remnants of a shirt around his neck. In confusion about the figure lay twisted steel rails, bits of machinery, other wreckage left by a black twister labeled "Rugged Individualism." Disappearing in the distance, the twister was bearing off a flock of banks, factories and "reputations." Says the banker...
...sent in their cards to Chief Wallace Murray of the State Department's Division of Near Eastern African Affairs. In his shirtsleeves, Diplomat Murray was fingering a pencil and thinking to himself as he looked out the window that in Ethiopia it must be raining too. Putting on his coat, Mr. Murray prepared to receive Standard Oil, remarking to his secretary, "I wonder what they want...