Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front of the ancient desk in the East Room of the White House stood a restless group of photographers in a little forest of tripods. Behind the desk stood a group of Senators, Cabinet Members, State Department officials. At the desk, of course, sat President Coolidge, in frock coat and wing collar. On his right sat Vice President Dawes, on his left, Secretary of State Kellogg, behind his chair stood Idaho's square-faced Borah and Virginia's militant Swanson. All eyes turned toward the green morocco case resting on the desk. It contained the Kellogg-Briand Peace...
...other morning a dignified and white haired gentleman, faultlessly dressed in morning coat and top hat applied at the Palace gates for an interview with an official of the King's household. He was at once passed in, for he is quite a well known figure in society and it was discovered to the amazement of the official whose duty it was to interview him, that he had come to tell the King's doctors that they were dealing with the case on a hopelessly wrong diagnosis. The King, he told the official, was suffering from the ill effects...
...called for more beer and presently begged for one of the Guildsman's gold earrings. While they dawdled the crook returned, drew a knife on the carpenter. Though old, the Hamburger was still potent. Seizing the crook's slender wrist he wrenched away the knife; seizing his coat collar and seat of trousers he hurled him sprawling into a Kurfürsten-Damm gutter, returned to Gretchen. Half an hour later some 30 taxis teeming with tuxedoed crooks drew up outside the Hamburger convention. Though the Journeymen flung chairs, mightfully defending themselves, the crooks opened with Mauser pistols...
...damage is a scratch, about three quarters of an inch in length, on the third finger of the left hand . . . and three buttons torn from my vest, which any tailor will reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down his throat some of his infernal teeth for anything I know. Balance in my favour $39.94. ... I never will abandon the cause of truth, morals and virtue...
...span will be 3,500 feet, its weight 90,000 tons, its cost $60,000,000. Like mechanistic titans, its two towers will stand 635 feet above the river.* Last week they had risen more than 450 feet, were visible for miles around. They shone with the preliminary coat of bright red paint which is applied to most steel structures.† An artist named McClelland Barclay saw the glowing towers of the Hudson bridge. He was inspired. "The new bridge," said he to a friendly newsman, "is the most gorgeously beautiful sight that can be found in New York...