Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alabama "character," a humorist of distinction. Under the Dothan Eagle's heading, Editor Hall daily prints the Biblical quotation: For I Heard Them Say, "Let Us Go To Dothan."- Genesis 37: 17, referring to the village in ancient Palestine where Joseph's brothers stripped him of his coat of many colors...
...plays the soprano saxophone, next feted hundreds of guests at a champagne breakfast in the Mayfair Hotel where "Momma" proved a hostess of surprising aplomb. Sarawak's laughing Eliza gave her husband a gold cigaret case, received a mink coat, disappeared in their snorting Sunbeam car for a three-week honeymoon at Juanles-Pins. Later she will play a 17-week engagement in Great Britain's provinces, jazz-singing with the Roy Band...
Both bodies were wrapped in blankets, placed in a native umiak to be towed to Point Barrow. From Will Rogers' coat pocket fell a newspaper clipping, a picture of his 18-year-old Daughter Mary, playing in Maine in a summer theatre performance of Ceiling Zero, which has for its climax a fatal airplane crash. At Point Barrow the bodies were placed in the tiny Mission Hospital. Then Sergeant Morgan went to his radio station to tell the world about the end of an Arctic holiday of which Will Rogers had written: "We are sure having a great time...
...become an invalid. Last week, Knitter Cann, whose strokes are old-fashioned and who can do only a plain stitch, went to the Tercentenary Committee's knitting bee intending to watch rather than compete, entered with misgiving when the committee asked for volunteers. He sat down, removed his coat, put his straw hat in his lap for a knitting basket, and revealed a smooth head fringed with grey. His prize, when the bee was over, was a box containing 16 balls of yarn...
Last week James Washburne, dapperly clad in a grey coat and pin-striped trousers, sat thumbing a fistful of stock in a Manhattan office. Proudly he read in black letters on the face of each certificate: ''James M. Washburne Candy Specialty Corp." The company is capitalized at $1,000,000 with James M. Wash-burne as president, Joseph B. Kaufman, treasurer. In the street below the office stood Mr. Washburne's shiny new Cadillac. ''I'm beginning to live all over again," beamed Candymaker Washburne...