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Word: coatings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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When reporters asked her to identify the brown fur coat she wore over an ankle-length, brown Chinese gown she spelled it out: "N-u-t-r-i-a." Then, with a glance at Mrs. Marshall's smart mink, she said, "It's an old fur coat, and it's out of style, but it's warm." When the two ladies were seated to be photographed, she smiled at Mrs. Marshall and asked, "Are we supposed to look at each other lovingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: House Guest | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...those who can't master the $12.50 the HOC will run low coat trips to its own cabin in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. HOC members have just put the finishing touches on this cabin and them premise ample skiing facilities nearby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOC Schedule Lists Skiing, Skating, Hiking for Winter | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

...them shrimp and mushrooms and showed them the house. She had discussed her artesian well ("We had to dig 260 feet, and we finally hit 25 gallons a minute"), her health ("I have the arteries of a girl of 16"), her finances ("I haven't bought a mink coat since 1934, for god's sake"), how she hates the theater ("I'd rather play cards or go to a ball game"), Private Lives ("I said to Noel before he saw it, 'anything you don't like we'll take out' "), her home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Early one morning last week, Sta-vroula's body was discovered in a courtyard three floors below a prison window. To squeeze through the tiny window on her way to death, Stavroula had had to remove her costly fur coat and Paris dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Front Woman | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Queues & Q. Cantabrigians knew him as a stooped and chivalrous gentleman, who walked with mincing little steps, and never appeared on the lecture platform except in morning coat and striped trousers. He always claimed to hate lecturing ("Why do we do it? Why do we do it?") But scarcely had a term begun than students were scrambling for seats in his classroom. "Go down to Q in lilac time, in lilac time, in lilac time," an undergraduate journal once advised. And when, during World War I, he took over a local pulpit for a few Sundays, his church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Period Piece | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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