Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Licked. In Los Angeles, one Lolly Popps complained that a man had stolen her coat, purse, a check for $27 and 85? in cash...
...caused by barely visible burrowing parasites) by painting patients "from neck to soles with a 20% benzyl benzoate emulsion." He claims his method is faster and cheaper than the classic system of baths, sulfur ointment and sterilization of clothes and bedclothes. Only 0.92% of his patients needed a second coat...
State Senator Seymour Halpern heard about the conditions from some Creedmoor workers. He went to see for himself, disguised by a stubble beard and an old coat to gain entrance as an inmate's visitor...
...White Plains, N.Y. divorce court, Coast Guard Lieut. Commander Jack Dempsey sat deadpanned and massaged the knuckles of one fist; his wife, full-fashioned, ex-Musicomedienne Hannah Williams, in a beige suit, tan corduroy coat, red gloves, red-heeled shoes and considerable eye shadow, fiddled with her sunglasses and turned various colors. A cook, an elevator boy, a fight manager, a maid took their turns on the witness stand, told stories of parties at redheaded Hannah's apartment...
...blank. Next to Jessel in importance are Jessel's gags. The best are none too brilliant. Of a decrepit theater he played in: "I was sure there were wild deer in the balcony." Of quarters in a crowded hotel: "We were finally given a room overlooking a coat hanger." As a final gag, Jessel reviewed his own book in Variety last week, described it as "rather daring...