Word: coats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rutledge, of 8 Chatham street, both of Cambridge. Lathrop and McKay were walking along the parkway near the Cambridge Boat Club about 5 o'clock in the afternoon when they saw a crowd collected near where the two boys had gone through the ice. Lathrop immediately threw of his coat and plunged into the water, and with the assistance of McKay, pulled them out and carried them ashore. Neither of the boys suffered from the effects of their icy plunge...
...were exaggerated, but they rested on a slight basis of truth. In those halcyon days, tradition assures us, there was a mighty respect paid the wealthy student, however little he deserved it as an individual. The man who could afford to appear at a football game in a fur coat was counted among the lords of the earth, and if he owned a fast horse he was a very prince of fellows. The ordinary man could make his way then as well as now, but undoubtedly wealth was inclined to monopolize the centre of the stage...
...represented. However, there are a few brilliant exceptions. Samuel Tanner as a shyster lawyer is most convincing, but C. L. Felter as president of a women's college fails to exhibit even the weaknesses demanded of his part. In passing, we cannot but demand that he have his frock coat altered so that it will fit around his neck...
...desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird's nest into the village and the hills beneath. He felt a need of lending hat and coat to "My Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly as if in a studio, hatless, fan in hand, on a hill-top while behind them the land spreads out in the distance and windy clouds swirl high. He felt indeed very witty. But he quite failed to feel that...
...Yale Battalion in gunner's practice. Every man taking advantage of this instruction will qualify as an expert gunner, thereby winning for his battery 75 points on the Federal rating, and permitting him to wear the gunner's insignia on the sleeve of his coat. The subjects to be taught are: Direct laying with peep and panoramic sight; indirect laying with the panoramic sight; laying for range with quadrant; fuse setting with hand and bracket fuse-setters; assembling and disassembling breech-block and study of material...