Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinner engagement. While newspapers headlined "kidnap,"' police and Federal agents scoured the city. A taxicab driver who took Mr. Livermore to his office said he had become "terribly sick" in the cab. Day after his disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar (see cut). His story: he had spent the night in a hotel, had awakened with a blank mind; newspaper headlines about himself brought him to his senses. His doctor's story: "Amnesia nervous breakdown." Pending against...
Last week, as all Denverites expected, the statue of Justice in new coat of aluminum paint was hoisted to the top of the Post building...
...bandit jumped into the automobile of Chicago Shoe Tycoon Irvinq S. Florsheim, forced his chauffeur to drive around while he took $400 from Mr. Florsheim, a $2,000 mink coat and $10 from his wife...
...remove hat, gleves, coat, and face, and reveal nothing but the wall beyond him is not an entirely new sensation (c.f. Dracula looking into a mirror and seeing nothing); but it is none the less grotesque and even somewhat amusing. The producers of "The Invisible Man" have not taken their creation too seriously, and so they have him do a jig down a country road with nothing but his trousers and an hysterically fugitive old woman to indicate his presence...
...would have gone well with the Invisible Man if the drug which made him invisible had not also made him insane; and so, after becoming a wrecker of trains and a murderer, he is finally shot dead in his tracks as he emerges from a barn into a virgin coat of newly fallen snow...