Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sworn in as gang boss, with the hereditary title of "Matsuzakaya the Fifth," than Matsuda began cleaning house. He reorganized the tekiyas into a modern, businesslike corporation (the Matsuda Carrying Trade Co.), ordered his followers to wear Western-style sack suits instead of the traditional drab blue coat and tight white shorts. He also talked about taking the "black" out of the black market, commanded the adoption of "legitimate, ethical and businesslike" methods, prohibited Matsuzakayans from dealing in stolen goods...
...biggest thing the tekiyas have ever seen." Then, her face still puffy from mourning, she sat easily behind her husband's desk and issued quiet, businesslike orders to the gangmen, who called her "Neisan"-Elder Sister. While her chief henchman, faultlessly attired in a morning coat with a red carnation in his lapel, sat approvingly by her side, Mrs. Matsuda proclaimed: "I intend to carry out my husband's ideas though it may entail considerable danger to my person and some resistance from among my henchmen...
...London's swank West End auto showrooms, the proprietor flicked a bit of fluff from his immaculate morning coat. Said he blithely: "Shocking, of course, but perfectly aboveboard...
...together. And unlike Margaret Dumont, the gracious Mrs. Rittenhouse of earlier Marx Brothers triumphs, Rumann is not content to remain a foil, and Groucho must contend with him as both a Nazi and a gag-stealer. Harpo, with a new wig and a slightly more fashionable, belt-trailing polo-coat, does his soulful best, but too often must fade out for the sake of the plot. The "situation" routines, a part of the permanent repertoire of the Marx Brothers, were few. Groucho's gags, when he grabbed the opportunity to pull one, were in character. When asked by a seductive...
...fenced-off friendly side. His office in the Senate Office Building reflects his pride: the photographs of his wife and four sons, the bronze statue of his father which stands on the mantel-old William Howard Taft, long coat swept back, right hand in hip pocket. One large photograph of the ex-President, vital and smiling, waving a hat, rests on the floor, against the fireplace. When people try to hang it on the wall, Bob Taft waves his hand and remonstrates: "No, I like it right there...