Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back Talk. "When I knocked on the [hotel] door, a somewhat impatient voice bade me enter. I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed...
...motoring alone on a country road at night. Out upon the road ahead of you steps a man in old overalls and a sheepskin coat, with a flashlight and a gun. He signals, "Halt...
Jacob D. Hanson, Secretary of the Niagara Falls lodge of Elks, driving up the hill of Lewiston Heights, N. Y., decided not to halt. Those overalls, that coat, that gun, looked thuggish. As he sped by, several shots banged out behind him. Farther down the road, another man appeared and started shooting. Everything went black for Motorist Hanson. His car careened into the roadside bank...
Briskly, young Black Mustache stepped from his car, peeled off coat, rolled up sleeves, fiddled with the carburetor of the stalled car, and within ten minutes had its motor briskly humming. Only then did the torpid professors recover sufficient alertness to note upon the motor car of their Samaritan the royal arms and rampant lion of Bulgaria. Figuratively rubbing greasy eyes, the pedagogues stared hard at Black Mustache, and recognized at last His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, 34 and still the most eligible of Balkan bachelors...
...President Coolidge don his frock coat, silk hat and cane and fly with Lindbergh...