Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that has lost its mother in the nursing period and is either reared by hand or left to shift for itself. It may be applied to a calf, a horse, or a lamb. The animal usually shows its lack of proper nourishment, being pot-bellied with a dull lustreless coat and a general appearance of undernourishment. The word is also used as an adjective, the term "dogied'' meaning having lost its mother and showing the effect in lack of growth and poor proportions. Cowboys when driving a herd find the small weak animals in the rear...
...owner was the great South African diamond tycoon. Sir Abe Bailey. Raymond finished an easy winner. His Majesty's Limelight was not even in the money. "The King loses!" cried sympathetic spectators. King George dropped his glasses in his lap. Queen Mary in a thick purple coat patted his hand consolingly...
...light district of Hamburg. Brahms patronized brothels all his life, a fact never before printed. He loved several women but he was shy of them, loved his bachelor freedom more. In Vienna where he lived his last 30 years he went around in a threadbare alpaca coat, trousers which he cut off above the ankle. He seldom wore a collar, spread his long beard over his shirtfront so that no one would know the difference. Cuffs were a joke. So were socks (he usually went barelegged). So were fatuous admirers on whom he would turn ferociously...
...awakened by waiters bringing breakfast. . . . Do not bring more than two extra suits of clothes-one will be sufficient. Six changes of linen will be plenty. We will have overnight pressing service four of the five nights we will be away from home. . . . Not necessary to carry a dinner coat. With these instructions in their pockets, 13 of the Administration's more festive set flew out of Washington to Atlanta. Aboard the plane were Comptroller of the Currency O'Connor. Director for Air Regulation Vidal, Richard Roper, son of the Secretary of Commerce, Oilman James A. Moffett...
...when no one payed the slightest attention to him, straightened his tie quite nonchalantly, as if to say, "All right for you," and started to walk out. Catching sight of the departing guest, a trembling tutor rushed up, and explained to the President that he must take his coat and hat, and trot around outside the building to Professor Greenough's house. A few minutes later, the door to the Master's house at the other and of the dining hall, opened and the Presidential party marched in, quite according to Hoyle...