Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator claimed, as part of his generous first-coat of red, that Lilienthal made no safeguards against foreign abuse of atomic power in the Acheson-Atomic Energy report, which Lilienthal helped to prepare. This claim does not jibe with the facts; Mr. Lilienthal subscribed to the gradual-surrender-of-secrets feature of the report which emphasized the need for security at each stage of expanding international control. Just as closely related to fact is "Mr. Lilienthal is one of those typical power-hungry bureaucrats who in recent years . . . have attempted to stretch their powers far beyond the limit of statutes...
...Custodians of the Statue of Liberty were giving the inside of the old lady a coat of hard enamel and planned to enclose the stair in wire netting. Reason: visitors have had a habit of scrawling their names on the wall in kissproof, scrubproof lipstick...
George's coat of arms bears the picture of two Herculeses, both with clubs; but so far he hasn't harmed a Hydra. A product of German governesses, Potsdam Military Academy and the British Court, he sincerely tries to do the "right thing," once remarked sadly: "There are no gentlemen in Greece with whom I could make friends." During his years in exile he apparently felt quite at home in the limbo of throneless royalty, where frayed memories of grandeur are brushed and brushed again like aging cutaways. He dresses well-perhaps a little too well...
Babe Ruth, in a Manhattan hospital ever since an operation on his neck last November, finally went home. In his famous camel's hair coat & cap he didn't look bad to the camera's eye (see cut), but two people helped him walk from the hospital entrance to his car. "I'm going home for a little vacation," he said. "... I want to look at the river...
...scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...