Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Remus, onetime bootlegger king. Mr. Remus, clad in white coat, white apron, Palm Beach pants, celebrated the last day of his sentence by personally serving fare more elaborate than the regular prison diet. It was Mr. Remus' third banquet in his 30 days in jail...
David Lloyd George was dining at the Savoy. His white Welsh mustache trembled slightly as he masticated a chop. In his pocket was an ordinary overcoat check; but the attendant, awed, had hung the coat in a closet distinct from the common coatroom...
Minutes passed. Dessert was passing in under the white mustache. Then suddenly the doorman of the Savoy snapped to attention as Mr. Lloyd George's coat passed over the threshold, a hat jammed down over the collar, two shabby trouser legs oscillating beneath...
...moment later, Mr. Lloyd George, comfortably replete, heard from the man who had stolen his coat piteous words: "Lor', Guv'nor, Hi didn't knaow 'twus yern. ... Hi cadged hit cuz Hi wus caold. . . . S'help...
...years he was a strange figure in Edinburgh streets. A contemporary described him: an abnormally short man, with ponderous arms and legs, a shuffling gait, beaklike nose and chin, "curious cast of the eye," and a perpetual haranguer. He was wont to dress in pantaloons, long, colored coat; wore a stock...