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Word: coatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...treated like a lawbreaker when he simply wants a job. Dreiser stuttered for a while before he was seven years old. He had a cast in one eye. He was bullied by older boys and overawed by his brother Paul, a successful songwriter (My Gal Sal), with his fur coat, silk hat and smart cane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brother | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

Nancy Carroll '51, one of the girl's whose money was stolon, described the woman as middle aged, wearing a black coat and a red and white kerchief. The robbery was not reported to the police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Female Burglar Robs 'Cliffe Dorm | 1/19/1949 | See Source »

...rain forced dignified Governor Millard F. Caldwell to cut short a resume of his administration. But it stopped as soon as the new man, handsome, greying, jovial Fuller Warren, stepped up. Warren was wearing a frock coat which hit him below the knees, but nobody minded. Cried he: "This is the first monkey suit I ever had on . . ." During the proceedings, an airplane flew over. Its wings bore the legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Done Up Classy in Tallahassee | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...have a chance to get to the door an agile little man makes several passes at you with his clothesbrush, allegedly depriving you of nonexistent bits of hair. Having completed this 'labor,' he looks at you expectantly. The man in charge of the wardrobe hands you your coat with the same expectant look in his eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: As You Like | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Parliament and denounced the House of Habsburg, Rudolph reverted to type and had the man horsewhipped. He spent hours updating his "Register of Conquests"; if the lady was wellborn, she got a silver cigarette box engraved with his signature-if she was a commoner, it bore only his coat of arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tailor's Death | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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