Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through his hat. Average weekly hours worked by coal miners in September: 41.4, for which miners were paid an average $1.48 per hour. Average pay of other industrial workers - iron & steel: $1.24 (40-hour week); autos: $1.37 (39-hour week). *A Colonial antique, now badly in need of a coat of paint. *More or less from As You Like It: "A poor virgin, sir, an ill-favored thing, sir, but mine...
...swung his cane and dented the cameraman's reflector. On Friday, when a bailiff had the temerity to tell him to take off his hat as he stalked back into Judge T. Alan Goldsborough's court after lunch, he simply ignored the fellow. He removed his coat, folded it with exaggerated care. When he was good & ready, he took off his large hairy black hat and sat glaring in front of him, running his tongue around the inside of his mouth to dislodge leftover particles of his lunch...
...distressed tut from the British trade paper, Tailor and Cutter, which ran two pictures of him. "Take the picture above," wrote the editor. "Quite nice. The stripes run parallel to the edge of the lapel. . . . Now look at the larger photograph. Oh! ... the trousers are too short. . . . The over coat is not a very pleasant sight. . . . And why is[he] so careless with his buttons and flaps?" Muttered Tailor and Cutter: ";We are very disappointed in Mr. Herbert Morrison ... he is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...
...Reds'll get you if you don't watch out. Louis Budenz, turn-coat ex-editor of the Daily Worker who makes a near convincing case for a Holy Crusade in the Forties, sees them under every bed and around every corner...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, when Lewis rose and challenged him to fine him any amount, warned the massive-laced AFL, leader not to get in contempt of court again, Lewis, with a lawyer tugging at his coat, sat down...