Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago they moved to California in a Buick. A thin, high-shouldered man, whose thick glasses and birdlike carriage give him a slightly alarmed appearance, Sidney Howard has a two-room flat in Hollywood, a more capacious apartment in Manhattan. For work he dresses in a tweed coat, grey flannel trousers, sneakers. He smokes cigarets steadily and rubs his chin while dictating, by fits and starts, faster than most stenographers can take...
...group from Dunster House recently visited the Hung Fi Lo restaurant in Chinatown. Honorable Fi Lo evidently was without the vigilance characteristic of his countrymen, for the group from Dunster House returned with one dozen pairs of chop sticks. Carefully concealed in inside coat pockets, the chop-sticks were smuggled into Dunster's salle a manger...
Edward of Wales unbuttoned his double-breasted coat in London at the British Industries Fair. Plain to see, he wore no vest. British tailors promptly moved him down several numbers on their list of best-dressed Britons...
Last week U. S. Science took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and struck back at the popular charge that its inventions and labor-saving devices were largely responsible for Depression. Millions of jobless felt that, somehow, they would be at work today if Science had not replaced them with machines. Wiser men discussed the possibility of a research holiday, to give economics a chance to catch up with Science. "Science and engineering will destroy themselves and the civilization of which they are a part unless there is built up a consciousness which is real and definite in meeting...
...welcomers while Mr. Rockefeller, blinking through yellow goggles and again warmly clad, was carried in an ambulance chair from train to waiting automobile. "Howdy, Mr. Rockefeller," cried an acquaintance. "Howdy," piped Mr. Rockefeller. His servants pulled down the car's shades, smoothed his blankets, fussed with his coat. "I'm all right," he sighed, a little irritably. Someone asked the servants how he had stood the trip. "It's fine weather," said they...