Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This was translated by him literally as: "Nothing is difficult to the brave"-and by the Whigs as: "The impudence of some men sticks at nothing." Even the Tories wondered what they had gotten hold of when "that damned bumptious Jew boy" invaded their circles "in a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band . . . scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles . . . white gloves with jeweled rings outside them . . . well-oiled black ringlets touching his shoulders...
...Germans captured him, but Embry was back in Britain again within ten weeks. He made his first break-from a marching column of P.W.s-by taking a lightning header into a ditch of muddy water. The guards never saw him go. He exchanged his R.A.F. uniform for "the most beautiful coat he'd ever seen" (he borrowed it from a scarecrow) and headed for the British lines...
...lady in the picture had good looks and a title: Lady Georgiana Gordon. Moreover, she was by the respected hand of 18th Century British Portraitist John Hoppner. But she was in poor condition, her complexion sallowed by a thick coat of yellow varnish. When the Brooklyn Museum got her as a gift in 1934, officials dismissed Lady Georgiana as an inferior Hoppner, sent her to the basement. Recently, Brooklyn assigned Restorer Sheldon Keck to give her a thorough face lifting...
...contrast, the F. Scott Fitzgerald set seem intent on perpetuating the "twenties" and their attempts to revive the raccoon coat, hip-flask, Stutz Beareat era, although interesting as social history, seem to be destined for eventual frustration due to moths and the lack of spare parts...
...heart, Falkner was an antiquarian. He delighted in local history and prized his job as honorary reader in paleography at the University of Durham. Five years after Moonfleet, he wrote another adventure story, The Nebuly Coat, which the critics liked even better, but which did not sell nearly so well as the story of Johnnie Trenchard. It was Falkner's last fling as a novelist. Increasingly, like a sensible Englishman, he turned his attention to business. By 1915, he was chairman of the munitions firm of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. But by 1932, when he died, it was clear that...