Word: coatroom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman Gymnasium will be used as a ladies' and men's coatroom. The conventional dress for the evening will be summer formal while the ushers will wear tuxedo...
David Lloyd George was dining at the Savoy. His white Welsh mustache trembled slightly as he masticated a chop. In his pocket was an ordinary overcoat check; but the attendant, awed, had hung the coat in a closet distinct from the common coatroom...
...Stop thief!" cried the coatroom attendant, having discovered that Statesman Lloyd George was still at his dessert. "Stop thief...
...Coatroom talk is occasionally significant. Last week significance was attached to unofficial opinions that so far as the President's equanimity may be disturbed, it has been disturbed. Cause: the Senate's refusal to confirm his appointment of Cyrus E. Woods of Pennsylvania to the Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, Jan. 31). It was the second rejection by the 69th Congress. Previous one: Wallace McCamant, "original Coolidge man of Oregon," to be Federal Circuit Judge. Judge McCamant had once said of Theodore Roosevelt: "Theodore Roosevelt was not a good American...