Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...match. Now he has an act. Last week, in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, 11,845 people waited impatiently for the preliminaries to end. At the cue, the amplifiers blared the Entry of the Gladiators and down the aisle strode James (George's valet) in morning coat, Kelly green vest and tie. He took a spray gun from a silver tray and began spraying the ring (George says that he just can't stand germs). The music stopped and a transcribed voice boomed excitedly: "Gorgeous George...
...islands of elegance in the sea of shabbiness: Britain's Anthony Eden; Princess Juliana and her consort, Prince Bernhard; Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, a Central European internationalist who for over two decades had been a tireless crusader for a united Europe. Churchill wore a long frock coat such as most British politicians discarded around World War I. It was just possible that the old trouper was trying to look more "European," a little less John Bull...
Maybe you just slipped the mothballs in the pockets of your coonskin coat and took a last glance at a rumpled Yale program, but the fact is that it's already time to be thinking of next season's gridiron tickets...
Anglican Newman, a sensitive, handsome man gliding through Oxford's quadrangles in his long-tailed coat, became a powerful influence among the undergraduates. They packed the ancient church of St. Mary's to hear his sermons. "As he began to preach, his voice was faint but musical, its pitch rising, though always controlled, till 'the very tones . . . seemed as if they were something more than his own,' as if a power beyond him spoke through...
...worried because "a lot of the junk I won hasn't been delivered yet." She doesn't know what to do with her trailer: "I haven't used it at. all, not even once. It's parked here in the yard." Her Persian lamb coat had to be sent back ("They did not have my size; I need a much larger one"). She has stored her stove and refrigerator, but likes to ride around the Navajo reservation, where she lives, in her shiny new Kaiser. The whole business was really too much bother, says Mrs. Parrett...