Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mexico City, I stopped on Avenida Insurgentes (pronounced,my Spanish phrase book says, "Ah-ve-nee-da In-soor-hen-tess") to enquire of a policeman how to proceed to Avenida Hidalgo (pronounced, according to the book, "Ee-dahl-go"). A Mexican gentleman with glasses and a professorial black coat was boarding a streetcar near me, and as he stepped up on to the car, he dropped a folded paper. I opened the paper, thinking it might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico, the letter...
...Forrestal is as calm, soft-spoken and neat as any other onetime investment banker-but he also knows how to fight for what he thinks is right. And rubber's Jeffers, a tough customer who came up from section hand to railroad president, will take his coat off at the slightest provocation...
Lana Turner, disguised in a low-pulled hat, dark glasses, a fur coat and a cold-reddened nose, went to court and won an annulment from Stephen Crane, her second husband. Her charge: he failed to let her know that his divorce had not become final when he married her last July. The cinemactress expects a child next summer...
...magazines a photograph or sketch of a dress, for example, cannot take up more than six square inches. A picture of a box of tea is permitted, but not a picture of a group of women enjoying tea. In mailorder catalogues either a front or back view of a coat may be pictured, but not both; only one shoe can be shown, not a pair. Only when it is necessary (such as in a suit or hat advertisement) can a picture of a human figure be used...
...slantwise on the wall by a single nail caught his eye. Vag cocked his head and read, "H-19, P-14, Comeford to Lyle." He thought of Bob on that fantastic afternoon wading into the melee of wild-eyed goal posters in his shirt sleeves, while Vag held his coat and made conversation with Bob's girl from Vassar...