Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thump-thump of Vice President John Garner's ivory gavel. It had met in the morning to establish a record of 367 days in session, recessed for 15 minutes, then flowed augustly on. As Garner, stammering occasionally and looking lonely and uncomfortable in his striped trousers and cutaway coat, put the Senate through its routine opening paces, the atmosphere was staid and grave. Senators elected and re-elected in November filed up to the rostrum in groups of four to be sworn in, each escorted by his State colleague. Only Hiram Johnson preferred to walk alone...
...Justice Department and had room for 40,000; the President sat in an $11,900 model of Andrew Jackson's house. The Hermitage. This year the President will sit in a reviewing stand which he designed himself: a plain Colonial doorway, covered with a single coat of cheap paint...
Patriotic Chinese say that Mr. Chou (pronounced Joe) has few talents and no virtues. He was educated in Japan. He looks like an old-fashioned Chinese scholar, but has the exaggerated manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with...
...story goes that only once did the Doc's roars fail to achieve their intended effect. A kitchen worker ran amok through the Middle House one morning, brandishing a cleaver. When the man paid no heed to the Doc's bellowing, Dr. Hume took off his coat, knocked the fellow down, sat on his chest and calmly told his pupils to call the police...
...Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat and cap with feathered mercury wings. She wore her jeweled flamingo on her shoulder, diamonds on her ears. She smiled at the cheering crowds from under a nose-length, peekaboo, white-dotted veil. Her husband gaily waved...