Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spell; showed temperatures higher even than in the East. While Washington thermometers read 88° and New York's 84°, those in Rapid City danced about 96°. Even the trout stopped biting, and, though the President made no complaint of the heat, he discarded his coat and sat shirt-sleeved on the State Lodge porch. From the heat waves rose rumors, unconfirmed, that the President might shorten his western visit, leave for the East about the middle of August, spend a few weeks in Vermont before returning to Washington...
...About two years ago I got tired of them and so I got a can of good lead paint . . . and put a nice coat of paint all over the walls...
...every head but one rested a flat-topped, tasseled cap; all but one pair of legs marched swathed in the folds of the academic gown. The lone exception was Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who, with silk hat, striped trousers, frock coat and pale blue, pearl-studded tie headed the parade.* He was to deliver the Commencement Address to the 1927 Class of Washington University...
President Coolidge, warming up more than usual, called the boy "our ambassador without portfolio"; pinned on his coat lapel the Distinguished Flying Cross; gave him his commission of Colonel in the Officers' Reserve Corps. The boy replied with seven short sentences, keeping his promise to Europe by delivering a message of friendship...
...toward his office in the Palazzo Chigi, Rome. Signer Lucetti, some six feet tall, but with refined, sensitive features, confessed last week in a detached monotone. Spectators noted that he had thrust sockless feet into a pair of battered shoes, wore unpressed duck trousers, a collarless shirt, a saggy coat...