Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When she came to Manhattan with her illegitimate daughter, the welfare department had put her on a $222.75-a-month allowance and had allowed her to stay at a hotel of her own choice. When a welfare investigator called, Madam X had "awed" him by appearing in a mink coat and a mink...
...responsible for the crumbling of the play into atomized hysteria. Through the first two acts he dashed headlong through his lines, cut in on his cues before lines were finished, and strutted about, the stage with his head slightly bowed and his hands shifting at irregular intervals from his coat lapels to unpleasant gestures. In the final act West slowed down enough to give some meaning to his lines, but he never managed to get across the admittedly poorly presented ideas of Stockmann. Jack Hodges, playing Stockmann's brother, was a welcome antidote with his well-paced, intelligent delivery...
...Washington, a famed chemist, Dr. James I. Hoffman, gave a sure-fire method for thwarting Halloween window-waxers: rubbing a thin coat of vaseline on glass surfaces before the young fiends arrive. Once windows are waxed, he explained, they can best be cleaned with gasoline, kerosene or turpentine...
...ride over, Ray Gene took quick leave and ducked back to the livestock stalls. There, as he polished the coat of his Hereford steer, he relaxed and talked about past F.F.A. conventions. "I got married last April," he said, "so I have to stay in a hotel with the wife this year. Always before when I came to the Royal I bunked right here with the cattle. It's hard to be away from the cattle...
...York. One of his 13 children, whose name was Henry, decided to use his inheritance to cultivate his passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk of weeds, weigh very heavily upon my shoulders." Billy's grandson, Novelist Henry James Jr., never regretted that "the rupture with my grandfather's tradition and attitude was complete; we were never in a single case, I think, for two generations, guilty...