Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clutching a two-page spread of photographs, cut carefully from the Saturday Evening Post, a red-faced woman in a fading gray coat pushing close to the barrier. She held up the double sheet. "Pat and Dick," she said. "I'm going to get it autographed." The wind caught the papers, "Dick Nixon: I Say He's a Wonderful Guy, by Pat Nixon," they said. "Somebody told me that he doesn't give autographs but I don't believe it. He'll give me one. I'm the only Republian in South Boston, almost. That's because I wasn...
...barriers were down and the paddy wagon gone, and they had folded up the band's chairs and stacked them in front of Cabit's Pharmacy. The streetlights went on, and traffic began to move along Broadway again. The woman in the gray coat took her Saturday Evening Post pages and folded them carefully into her handbag. "Didn't she have a nice smile? She looked so proud of him. And weren't those children darling? They didn't move once while he was talking." She smiled and pointed to her handbag. "It's too bad they had to rush...
...sure enough, the fellow would be in your office asking for something." He was not above indicating that he was only human and perhaps foolish. There was that matter of the $5,000 commission he picked up for selling an airplane. There was his wife's famed mink coat. "My wife loved that coat," he drawled. "She loved it and petted it like a firstborn child. Now, the pore thing, she'll never put it on again. I think she sold...
...Paris, miming modern living with styles the rage of a quarter and half century ago, are inflating hips, deflating waists, and elating connoseurs of costume. Skirts have shrunk, blouses have balooned, and poodles have passed. The fad follower will wear green and love leather. In a bucket hat, barrel coat, and a beer bottle silhouette, she will look like nothing so much as a walking Schlitz...
...mayor of Dellwood, Minn., where a total of seven votes was cast." But in another field, the class of '36 has proved more enterprising. Among the books it has written: Search for the Spiny Babbler, A Pattern of Politics, Collective Bargaining and Market Control in the New York Coat and Suit Industry, Alkylaminoalkyl Esters of Aminonaphthoic Acids as Local Anesthetics-and The Wall...