Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waking moments. . . . Motored with Mrs. Baker to see the new home of his friend John Stockwell. Showed special interest in John Stockwell's library. . . . Home for Sunday dinner, the best part of which (for Mr. Baker) was ice cream. . . . Changed to old shirt and work trousers, left off hat, coat and waistcoat, rolled up workshirt sleeves and fell to cutting cornstalks in the garden. Carried the corn stalks in armfuls to his vacant side lot. (The stalks were later to be spread on flower beds for winter coverage). Forked up large clods in the back garden with a spading fork...
...dime, will lose the crown on the reverse side and gain a confusion of acorns, oak branches & oak twigs; the obverse side will retain the King's head. The larger coins will also retain the head on the obverse sides but the half-crown will lose its royal coat of arms and the motto, Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense (Evil to Him Who Evil Thinks), on its reverse side and will receive in exchange the royal initials "G. R." (Georgius Rex), as will the two-shilling pieces...
...tottering. Last week was a bad one for me, but I'm man enough to take my beating without excuses--just as any Forecast would. I am giving Joe Jr. an example of huge moral courage, letting him learn anew the significance of the motto, or the Forecast coat-of-arms. We stood together in my library my hand on little Joe's shoulder; and I pointed to the famous Forecast crest--crossed shovels, a sitting bull couchant on a field gules argent, with the scutcheon emblazoned "Nimmermehr Alibi" And I said, "My son, remember this and live...
...ENTIRE garb WILL consist in A LOOSE double-breasted COAT and the nice COOL LONG trow MENTIONED somewhere in THE wilderness above...
Bellard, in The Woman, meant to be a financier. One day "he was torn by the look of a house on whose mean little porch near the street sat a shabby old man of 60, without a coat and reading a newspaper. The man's fate seemed terrible. . . . But the man looked up, and smiled at Bellard as brightly as if he himself had been young." Bellard, the ambitious Bellard, never becomes a financier but he finds happiness because he loves a woman. So when his children rail at his failure, he goes out on the porch of his scrubby...