Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan-born Abe, a onetime coat label salesman, thought his radio listeners ought to know what he looks like. "Am I fat?" he asked them. "Am I sloppy? Am I bald? Well, my answer...
...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...
...Murray Bay, Quebec, decorous Senator Robert A. Taft, who would soon tour the West to learn how he looked to them out there as a presidential candidate, took off his coat, set a vacationist's hat squarely on his head, turned up his trouser cuffs, and did his earnest best (for photographers) to look like a happy-go-lucky golfer...
...onetime Soviet official, was testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee. "Mr. Kravchenko," Committeeman Karl Mundt explained darkly, "may be in considerable danger" if his picture should appear in the papers. Kravchenko consented to having his picture taken afterwards-on his own terms. He carefully changed his blue coat for an investigator's grey jacket, pulled a borrowed Panama down over his eyes, put on dark glasses and shielded his face with his hand. It made a good Page One picture, and for readers who wanted to draw a hasty moral, the inference was clear: he didn...
...educational institutions to determine which businessmen "best symbolize the traditional Horatio Alger career." Actually, only two of the winners had come up from rags to riches. They were General Electric's Charles E. Wilson, onetime $4-a-week shipping clerk, and I. J. Fox, who ran one fur coat into the largest U.S. fur chain. The rags of the other Alger boys had been well tailored. Coty's Grover Whalen was the son of a prosperous New York contractor; Pepsi-Cola's Walter S. Mack Jr. had struggled up from Harvard. But all remained true...