Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken her husband's overcoat in a restaurant. Quite willing to prove that there must be a mistake, Henry Jones started to accompany Mme. Gauthier to the restaurant in order that he might assure her that he had not been in the establishment when her husband had lost his coat. A typical hot-headed Parisian woman, Mme, Gauthier babbled about Verdun, la France, the debt. A mob swarmed about Mr. Jones shouting: "Vive la France! A bas les etrangers!" Before Henrey Jones could devise a plan to escape the husterical crowd, he found himself accuses of being...
...revelations pour into editors' desks revealing how Jones has been connected with Moscow for a long time. Communists and Royalists stage riots. A "femme fatale," thus does Mme. Lanerre call herself, visits Jones frequently and commiserates his position. To the authorities Jones appears "with the true story of the coat, but it is not a question of a coat, it is the honor of France...
...jailbreaker, murderer, bank robber), busy buying a short wave set to get police alarms. In a city apartment they collared Russel Clark (same occupations), before he got his gun. Few hours later they seized John Dillinger (gang leader, police killer) as he arrived with a submachine gun under his coat...
Epilog. Thursday, Dec. 12, 1799, the weather being very bad, rain, hail and snow falling alternately, Washington rode out to his farm as usual, returned with coat and hair wet by snow, and sat down to dinner without changing his clothes. Next day he showed signs of a cold. His throat was hoarse. Washington, answering remonstrances: "I never take anything for a cold. Let it go as it came...
Digger Jonker planned to buy first a top hat and frock coat, then a sheep farm, then "a good present for Johannes," the Kaffir who screamed "Good baas...