Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in the evening, Charlotte De Monte, Radcliffe '55, lost a valuable brown mouton fur coat out of the Adams downstairs coatroom. She immediately notified University and Cambridge police, but held only little hope of getting the coat back...
...looped securely around the man's wrist so he cannot get away." As for giving a man a bath, Ford says a dog should jump in the tub himself, with all fours, splashing the man as much as possible, then jump out and shake the water off his coat and on to the man. After that, "run around the yard in circles. By the time he has caught you he will be completely dry again...
...coat was red, and his breeches were blue...
...party went on merrily until suddenly the dancers heard a horse stomping outside, and a voice shouting "Whoa!" Three knocks came on the door, and in swept a bearded young man with glowing black eyes. He was turned out in marten hat, beaver coat, and moccasins embroidered with porcupine quills and spangled with pearls of all colors. Bowing, he removed coat and hat with a flourish, but kept on his black kid gloves. To the pretty daughter of the house, vivacious Blanche, he bowed and said: "Mademoiselle, you are invited...
Then one day, working on a customer's coat, Govind was horrified to discover that he had sewed his fingertip to the cloth and didn't even feel it. Another day he smelled burning flesh, saw his own toes pressed against a flatiron, yet felt no pain. When the doctors cleared up the mystery, Govind had to swap his tradesman's heaven-on-earth for what he was sure would be leper's hell...