Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regular Sunday broadcast this week, Chibás seemed depressed. He turned the microphone over to a friend, Jose Pardo Llada, who roasted the Autenticos for 20 minutes; Chibás himself made only a short speech. He ended with: "People of Cuba, awake!" Then he fumbled under the coat of his natty, double-breasted white suit, grasped his .38-cal. revolver, squeezed the trigger. The bullet ripped into his belly, shattering his spine...
...Lithofold Corp. had some good friends-of-friends. One was ex-RFCer Merl (Mink Coat) Young, who phoned Alexander from Washington that "the Democratic National Committee is interested in this loan." Another was James Finnegan, St. Louis Collector of Internal Revenue and crony of the President. Finnegan added his pleas. Finnegan would generally agree with Alexander that some of Lithofold's business practices were unsound (as Alexander recalled it), "but he would invariably ask, at each meeting, 'How's the loan coming, Charlie...
Ministers in morning coat or resplendent uniform were ranged along one side of the crowded chamber in Brussels' Parliament (designed for only 200 deputies, it was crammed with 1,000 guests). At the ministers' left sat the diplomatic corps, to the right were Belgium's top justices, grave in fur-trimmed gowns. Next to them were Senators and Representatives. Under a huge red velvet canopy stood the throne of Belgium, a formidable chair-newly gilded and fitted with red upholstery-which had been lugged down from the Parliament building's attic...
Roman Catholic Flemings-need a King as a symbol of unity. Belgium's young dynasty, just over a century old, has usually known its place. Baudouin's grandfather, mountain-climbing King Albert, became Europe's best-loved monarch (in October 1918, in trench coat and battered helmet, Albert surprised the stout burghers of Ostend as the first allied soldier to enter that Belgian city on the heels of the fleeing Germans). But he never forgot the lesson his autocratic grandfather and predecessor Leopold I had learned through hard experience: in Belgium, a King is supposed to govern...
Actually, the battle is far from won in New York City, one of the nation's strongholds of the summertime coat and tie, where many a stuffy restaurant owner keeps a supply of odd-size jackets on hand to make sure that customers can be made socially acceptable on hot afternoons. But this week the Gallup poll reported some encouraging returns. Seven out of ten U.S. women, said Gallup, now look with approval on shirt-sleeved males...