Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trick. At sundown the regiment set off. As the soldiers trudged through a moonlit town, a civilian in a long coat gestured and jabbered something about Germans. The soldiers paid no attention. But they remembered later...
...classical minstrel show consisted of three parts. In the First Part, the flashy company of "coons" marched to their seats in a large semicircle on the stage. In the center the Interlocutor, in a resplendent tail coat, pronounced the inaugural "Gentlemen, be seated...
...Defense. W. T. Grant's answer to OPA's complaint concentrated on this manifest absurdity. The answer pointed out that under MPR-330, 37 Grant stores are forbidden to sell a $10.98 coat that 401 others could still carry because they never sold coats before. Just for good measure, the defense also alleged that the whole Price Control Act, not to mention MPR-330, violates the Fifth ("due process") Amendment of the Constitution...
Lawyer Tutt, the ramshackle figure in a rusty frock coat, stovepipe hat, stand-up collar and string bow tie, the canny mind that slyly wrenches law into justice, first came to public attention in a story written by Arthur Train in the Satevepost of June 7, 1919. Illustrating the story was a drawing of Tutt by Arthur William Brown (for which Frank Wilson, a retired actor, posed...
...escape Hélion faked a toothache, gained a few precious hours away from his office job. From under the fixed seats of three latrines he took his carefully hidden garments, changed from prison clothes to civvies. Then, with his prison coat thrown loosely over his disguise, he joined his mates in the yard to watch a minutely rehearsed game of volleyball...