Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eden himself was not spared the heckling that is a public art in Britain. At one sunny stopover, Eden took off his coat and raised his voice to compete with roaring traffic. "The Socialists have been saying all we do is look out for the rich. We took sixpence off the income tax," he said. Besides, he went on, the Tories had raised old-age pensions...
Trailers, station wagons and cars with bulging luggage compartments converged on Oberlin, Ohio last week. Most of the vehicles carried a young-looking woman and a large, wedge-shaped case. Each case contained an evening dress, coat, shoes and a makeup case besides its usual contents, a harp. All told, there were 50 girls and women, aged 14-40, and four men, who had come for three days of gossip, shoptalk, practice and, finally, a grand, massed harp concert...
...including myself) as Mr. Harold Macmillan entered No. 10. I did not take a count when Sir Winston drove off to the palace, but I should guess 500, not "more than 2,000 gawpers." As one of the gawpers, I suggest that Sir Winston was wearing not a frock coat but a morning coat...
...writers, and, when the shoe fits (as in the case of Gibbon), as dullish people redeemed by works of genius. Quite clearly, Kronenberger's ideal is 18th century England, where style "was not just a matter of stance and stride, of paying a compliment or wearing a coat. It was something men commanded in the stress of business . . ." And in the stress of the business of criticism, Kronenberger commands an unmatched style. For he can balance a sentence as if it were a crown jewel on a velvet pillow; and he can also, occasionally, throw the pillow across...
...autumn . . . Under our marching boots the grass withered and faded." Through sucking mud and pathless rain, the soldiers march to Hill 317. They fight, joke, brawl, complain and die on the hill, forgotten by headquarters. Brooding over them is the gaunt figure of the Gravedigger Captain in his draggling coat, explaining to Adam Ember that he took the job because he wanted to be on the side of victory. "You don't imagine either we or the enemy are going to win a victory here, do you?" explains the captain coldly. "Death alone wins the victories...