Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women and the smart young Querétaro lawyers who arranged for overnight billeting of the aged and the very important. Among these last was Querétaro's Father Sebastian Berumen. Thin and steelyeyed, he marched in straw sun helmet and knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro's Chamber of Commerce; John Herbert, English owner of Querétaro's ice factory, and three other businessmen and lawyers...
...dream world, shown in Paris last fortnight, proved as pleasing as ever. Magritte, a surrealist with a sense of humor, cares little for the Freudian froufrou that once made his colleagues seem different and daring. His paintings often mean just what their titles say: Sea Sickness-a green, checkered coat crumpled beneath the glare of a garish orange sun; The Last Meal-a macabre scene of a candlelit room, in which tears drop from nowhere and a woman brings a dying man an indigestible last supper of wine, a carrot and a hard-boiled...
Teetotaling, non-smoking Arthur Flemming never takes off his coat or his dignity at staff meetings. But Civil Service Commission staffers like his insistence on group decisions. In 1939, when 34-year-old Republican Flemming was named by President Roosevelt to the Commission, he became the second youngest member in U.S. history (younger: 30-year-old Teddy Roosevelt). Flemming also served on the War Manpower Commission, is now a member of the new Hoover Commission (set up by Congress to study the executive branch). At Ohio Wesleyan, President Flemming plans to teach a course in political science, hopes...
...first thing I want to do is take a trip to Mexico. He'll have to buy me a toy fox terrier, one that weighs less than two pounds. I love the things." She fingered the borrowed pearls on her chic black dress, tugged at the borrowed fur coat she was wearing...
...Coat. The following day the job went to Wong. Nanking was startled. But, after chewing over the record of tiny, chain-smoking Geologist Wong, Chinese nodded their heads. The new Premier was transcendentally honest-in his first 20 years of public service he had never even owjied a fur coat. When, finally, he had bought a sheepskin one (with cat's-fur collar), he had kept it only two days, then given it to his father. And he was an able administrator...