Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 1 wish to dress up around the mills and wear a coat it is not of 1917 vintage, as you report, but was made in 1921. The straw-woven shoes are now no more, as at least a dozen old friends read your report and have supplied me with new pairs. The $20,000,000 with which I am credited is entirely a myth but since your article appeared I have received wires and letters from acquaintances of years gone by requesting immediate loans. I believe I am also safe in stating that I have been given the opportunity...
Every tailor in the country now feels that it is time for me to buy a new coat and I think it only fair that when I do so they should give TIME a commission on the business...
Typical excerpts: "... I am a girl mobilized for social work. ... I have no time for love. . . ." ". . . My name has been engraved on the roll of honor of our factory. My wife Lida says 'Your success has been built upon my misfortunes.' I bought Lida a coat and a silk dress. Lida said 'I can't use your silk dress. I have nowhere to go.' And she threw it in my face. . . ." ". . . While I was busy with posters, flowers and parades ... I entirely forgot the existence of the man I love. . . ." Summing up all this Komsomolskaya...
...reach any of these organs the surgeon must cut through the peritoneum, a closed sack within the hollow of the abdomen. The outside coat of the peritoneum resists germs, but its slippery, serous inner wall offers streptococci an ideal breeding place. The peritonitis which results is exceedingly hard to cure. A high percentage of peritonitis cases die, and many of the remainder suffer lifelong pain and debility from adhesions. Because of the difficulty of coping with this form of infection all surgeons cock hopeful ears toward any serious colleague who promises them a preventive of peritonitis...
...whom her mother admires, is somehow responsible. This knowledge merely makes the situation more puzzling than ever. Her only ally is a cockney confectioner's boy in whose cellar she hides after she has gone to Hilliard's apartment one evening and seen her mother's coat thrown down across a sofa. It is the confectioner's boy who saves her life when, at the end of the picture, after being forced to testify against her mother in a divorce court, she has gone home and turned on the gas-logs in her nursery...