Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help much financially, but already the villagers had a scheme in mind to spend it so that all the citizens of resurrected Warren might benefit. They would turn it to furniture for a public building. Cabinetmaker Groot Landeweer thought a sturdy oak chair carved with Borculo's coat of arms would make a good item. Parchmentmaker Nathan Elzas put aside a particularly fine calfskin. That, he was certain, could be turned into several lampshades that would be just right for Warren...
Yale University had never had a guest lecturer quite like the count. He was an egg-bald old (69) gentleman who dressed in Army-style suntans, refused to wear a coat or tie, and spent most of his time in a chromium wheelchair (he was badly wounded in World War I). At times, he would bellow at his audience ("Can you hear me in the rear echelon?"), then let his voice trail to a mumble...
...Take the Risk." The instant dour, dynamic Conductor Reiner stepped on the practice podium in his black, choke-collared rehearsal coat, the Met's orchestra began to starch up. After the first session, the musicians even took their parts home to practice Strauss's barbaric score on their own time...
...Romans by the thousands began to flock to the church. Unable to enter, they formed a solid, screaming mass from the Colosseum to Piazza Venezia. Invited guests had to push their way through sweating hordes, and became rumpled, bruised and angry. U.S. Ambassador James Clement Dunn nearly lost his coat. One man's finger was broken. Several women fainted...
...Walk. Captain Harry had said that he wanted as many of them "as can walk" to be his official escort at the inauguration. He wouldn't be able to march along with them. "I'll be wearing a high silk hat and a long-tailed coat," he said, "and I'm not going to march along in that...