Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sold twlve-foot trees at $1 retail, to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers," he explained. He had sold 50,000 trees wholesale, and figured that within a few years he would be selling 100,000 a year. Following precept with example, Elliott & wife Faye (in a mink coat and jodhpurs) juiced up the sales by doing some hawking in person-and got rid of 500 trees...
...cover coat in down and the first top coat falling on probably the biggest ski season this coast of the United States has ever seen...
...have no fears about this thing," he began diffidently. "When your number is up-well, your number is up. So I am going to speak frankly to you." Then well-dressed Governor Sigler (he has 43 suits plus a morning coat) kept his promise...
...courtyard. In the lofty Blue Drawing Room, Molotov and colleagues stuck together in a tight little knot and touched neither the champagne cup nor the whiskey and sherry. They did not even smoke. George Marshall stuck with U.S. Ambassador Douglas. Winston Churchill, looking as gloomy as his frock coat, left early. The King talked to Molotov a little longer than to his other visitors...
Last week, wearing his familiar rehearsal outfit-a severe black alpaca choke-collar coat, that set off the whiteness of his hair and mustache-the little cellist himself was stopping other cellists, screaming at violinists, and cajoling a 50-voice chorus. He was rehearsing one of the year's memorable musical events-a broadcast of the entire opera Otello, in two Saturday broadcasts, an hour and a quarter each. "This Is Desdemona." For weeks the Maestro had been getting set for his one opera broadcast of the year. He had hand-picked his singers, rehearsed them relentlessly...