Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nonskid coat hanger on which trousers will not bunch up by sliding...
...with airplanes any more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes in for double-breasted suits in sturdy fabrics, insists that his tailors (Bell & Co., Manhattan) put cuffs on his coat sleeves, adorn his lapels and cuffs with little raised ridges that give the suits a ribbed appearance vaguely like the belly...
...when officials belatedly realized that no one may sit with his back to the King. At the Chateau gold-plated microphones were installed for the King's first speech. Towns along the St. Lawrence heaped bonfires, decked railway stations. At Callander, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe got his morning coat out of mothballs and the Dionne quintuplets practiced pretty curtsies in preparation for their trip to Toronto to meet King George and Queen Elizabeth. Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir (Author John Buchan) collected a library for Their Majesties, books on Canadian life, political works and novels, including a mystery called Blood...
When the five-day festival opened, even ramshackle Music Hall had had a coat of paint, and the smell of moth balls rose from Cincinnati's resurrected tail coats like incense in a cathedral...
Unlike the Grand National, which offers a prize of ?7,000 to the winner, the Maryland Hunt rewards its victors with a silver tankard decorated with the coat of arms of Maryland...