Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beastly sirens were going full blast and they make a vile, almost tangible din. I really was very scared, you see I was half asleep and the flashing torches, the general din and semi-panic was rather horrible. And of course I couldn't find my coat or my gas mask or my shoes, and my knickers jammed in my pyjamas. Eventually we all got down and sat on benches, then everybody lay down on the stone (very cold) floor and wrapped ourselves in bathing wraps. . . . We had two more today, one very short and then a long...
...used for radio broadcasts. He sat at a table facing microphones and a small group of friends and White House employes. The night was hot, with the dull, moist heat of Washington midsummer that settles like a tangible weight on the city. The President took off his coat and in a 32-minute speech accepted the Democratic nomination for a Third Term...
...formal round of public posturings. But he did his real work in the corridors and rooms of Havana's swelegant Hotel Nacional de Cuba. Astonished was many a high-hat diplomat when a grey, modest, smiling-eyed gentleman in a slack lounge suit wandered in, took off his coat, sprawled in a chair, talked as though Secretaries of State and Foreign Ministers were human beings. With the same tactics in 1933, Cordell Hull had saved the International Conference of American States at Montevideo from complete collapse. Until he exhausted this shirt-sleeve diplomacy in Havana, wise...
...Montgomery Ward, which has in recent years ventured into higher quality lines, pulled in its horns a bit, but continued to expand its medium-higher-priced lines. Whereas the 1939-40 catalogue featured a top-price fur jacket at $139.50, 1940's stopped at a $69.50 fur coat. While last year's customer was offered a single $59.50 fur-trimmed coat, the 1940-41 buyer had three to choose from...
...Timmons shuttled back & forth, perspiring, between the press box and his Texas delegation, there came a commotion on the floor. A delegate from Ohio, Francis Durbin, fought his way through a squad of policemen to the platform. Cried he: "I want to make a speech!" He peeled off his coat, took a drink of water, braced himself at the rostrum...