Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweater, and sailor caps would be preserved. The Alumni advisor committee for the Band objected to a change of regalia when proposed some time ago and their decision has since influenced the officers of the organization against innovations in this respect. The drum major, however, will wear a crimson coat this fall in place of the customary sweater in order more conveniently to carry his signalling pistol and similar paraphernalia...
...President Coolidge received a five-months-old thoroughbred setter puppy, by name "Palo Alto," as a gift from Claire Wildner, Superior realtor. He was told that that the flecks of color on the dog's coat were called "ticks...
Over the fields a stranger approached. She shaded her eyes with a hand and saw that he wore a black frock coat. His walk was diffident as well as awkward. She waited for him to come close. And her eyes widened as the ill forecast of his roundabout phrases became intelligible. Her brother, the great, the famed, the honorable, the revered Dr. Hideyo Noguchi was dead. She put her hands to her face and cried. Her spade fell over into the clods...
...Hayden is far from being the first millionaire or hundred-million-dollar-corporation-director to take off his $175 coat for Republicanism. His theoretical boss is a young millionaire-philanthropist called "Jerry" Millbank (Eastern Treasurer). And the latter's boss is the white haired president of Cleveland's biggest bank, known to that city as "Joe" Nutt (National Treasurer). And etc. etc. etc. For Republicans, this has always been so. Years ago, that great Pittsburgh steelman, B. F. Jones, became chairman of the Republican National Committee, and it never entered his head to resign anything. So, today...
...same old town with a new coat of paint...