Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last Fight. Enraged at this disturbance, Bummy roared, "Leave the guy alone!" When the gunmen showed no signs of following his advice he seized the nearest by a coat lapel, shoved him into position, then knocked him clear out of the joint with a murderous left. Unnerved, the other holdup men backed out, shooting at point-blank range. Bummy dived after them, swinging wildly and roaring horrible epithets. Bullets hit him in the spine, the lungs, the right arm. He kept swinging his left. He was outside, running for his automobile to give further chase, before he finally fell dead...
...Billion Dollar Baby" has two acts; the first is too long and monothemistic, feverishly satirizing the raccoon coat and bathtub gin, while the second, in a different vein, is a Daliesque stylization of a flapper's dream. The last scene is a throwback to Act I, with the flapper marrying the millionaire and the stock market tumbling down upon their presumably empty heads...
Quencher. In Chicago, a disorderly conduct charge against Alex Aratri was dismissed when he explained why he jumped in the river: "Just went in for a drink of water." Clothing Business. In Cleveland, Albert Tepper chased a thief who had snatched a coat from his car, recovered the coat when the thief dropped it, got back to his car just in time to see the thief driving off in it. Near Grafton, Australia, Farmer William Thompson found a kan garoo caught in a fence, put his vest on it, merrily watched it hop away in style, realized later that...
...merchant navy's "Red Duster," Cana-dianized after Confederation by superimposing the Dominion coat of arms on the fly (outer end of the flag), and Canada's unofficial flag...
...reason why Napoleon kept his hand inside his coat so much may have been because he was scratching himself. He suffered from Sarcoptes scabiei, the barely visible mite which causes scabies-commonly known as the itch...