Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gotham a swarthy guest in white turban, striped flannel skirt and long, grey coat attracted some attention. He was mannerly, scholarly Sayed Saddiq El Mahdi, grandson of the famed Sudanese leader whose career came to an end at the hands of the British at Omdurman in 1898. Sayed was not strictly a delegate. He was in town to watch the Assembly handle Egypt's case. Some day his own state might be in the same fix. Meanwhile, he was prepared to enjoy himself. "Before we came," he told a reporter over a lemonade last week, "we thought America...
...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...
...best way to see all your friends. You have to be sure that they wave at you: It's proof to them that I can catch a man. Only you don't usually try to speak to them--they might find something catty to say about your raccoon coat...
...barns.She had it dragged out and set up among the fauns and iron deer on her Somerville, N.J. estate. It was a sentimental gesture. The bull was the metal incarnation of the animal on the old Bull Durham tobacco label-almost the coat-of-arms of Dee-Dee's father, James Buchanan Duke, founder of the American Tobacco Co., who had died in 1925, leaving Dee-Dee $53 million...
...years. One of her most fertile hunting grounds is the Brooklyn Museum, which she likes because it lets her take costumes back to her shop for copying. This year it supplied the inspiration for a woman's suit jacket copied from a man's hunting coat, and 15 dresses and a blouse with a filmy, peekaboo look, copied from a 75-year-old camisole. Sophie is well aware of the limitations of her art, and that styles run in amazingly regular cycles.* The trick is timing: to pick the right idea out of the past at the right...