Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...done much to foster good-neighborly relations-just what he wanted. In his quiet way, the President had scored a big hit. Said a telegraph clerk: "That smile kind of gets you. He ought to come back often." clanged out The Missouri Waltz, the President, now in frock coat and silk hat, walked across the street to the Parliament Building with Mackenzie King. The House of Commons chamber was full. Bess Truman, in the Speaker's Gallery, smiled down from under a huge white...
Talent on the Table. Daniel never did very well at school; for a while his family wondered what would become of him. Then one day when he was about 17, Daniel put beside his father's plate a turnip whittled to resemble a frog, in tail coat and trousers. "This," the judge exclaimed, "really looks like talent...
Despite the "honeys" that sugar-coat her talk, Georgia is no Southern belle. She began life as Fredda Gibson in Massachusetts, and sang her first notes in a Worcester, Mass, orphanage. At 15, she drifted to Boston, divided her evenings between waltzing in a dance studio and warbling in a nightclub...
...finished his coffee and walked out, glancing--for lack of a worthier subject--at a passing Yard cop who had shed his coat in deference to the early June heat. The sight of the shirt-sleeved Yard cop made Vag realize that it was going to be a hot summer. With a nine o'clock every morning, and each class meeting four times a week, summer school was going to be more work than fun. Vag wondered if it were worth the effort. He ran his fingers through his thinning hair and decided that...
...occasion he excited the sympathy of a group of people who saw him walking along the shore overlooking to bay. He was coat-less as usual; the thermometer read ten below. Mrs. Pound, who tells the story, was embarrassed to confess to the commiserators that the "poor man" was her husband, as she was swathed warmly in mink...