Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reply: he ordered his gardeners to plant shrubs all over the sahibs' golf course, which was, after all, his own property. In time, the Sultan sent her back to England, and there Lydia was killed in an air raid in the act of buying a fur coat. The Sultan was desolate...
This Way In. In Ipswich, England, Peter Sheppard, who complained at being put out of prison in midwinter without a coat, was sent back to jail the same day for stealing...
...NATO's buildup, Eisenhower ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen to make a quick, fact-finding trip through Europe within ten days after the inauguration. Another decision: his inaugural outfit, announced Eisenhower, would include no top hat or tail coat. Instead, he would wear: black Homburg, striped trousers, club coat, black and grey four-in-hand tie, turned-down starched collar...
...children prepared him a surprise-a leather case engraved "Sir Douglas Fairbanks." The new knight took it in stride when he learned that foreigners are not permitted to bear the prefix "Sir." "Oh, never mind about titles," he said. But he did take up a knight's coat of arms from the College of Arms...
...Conservatory. She soon found that her talents lay in the light-fingered piano music of Mozart, Chopin and Faure, that she would never have the power to pound out a Rachmaninoff concerto. Weighty romantic music never appealed to her anyway: "I feel as if I'm wearing a coat that is too heavy for my shoulders...