Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distant ancestors of President Coolidge named "Collins"? Were less-distant ancestors named "Colynge"? Sc, last week, Marc J. Rowe, heraldic artist, who traced the Coolidge family back for centuries. He added that "Coolidge" probably was not of Irish origin. Artist Rowe displayed in Washington a painting of the Coolidge coat of arms, a gold griffin on a green field, with the insignia "Virtute et Fide" (Virtue and Faith). The griffin, said Mr. Rowe, symbolizes watchfulness. It appears also in the coat of arms of J. P. Morgan...
...right wrist having recovered from lameness, the President threw a white baseball to Tristram Speaker to open the season for the Washington nine. Mrs. Coolidge wore a green hat, a green coat...
...Duke and Duchess of York. Perhaps the baby, with feminine intuition, realized how near she was to Peter Pan. Despatches told that she stirred in her sleep, wakened for an instant and looked sleepy-eyed at the smiling man in thin-rimmed glasses, white stiff collar, and impeccable frock coat who stood, still atiptoe, beside her crib. Then, with a small pink yawn, Her Royal Highness dismissed Sir James...
City-bleached people flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased...
...skirted Africa, spun over the Atlantic, swooped over the jungles of Brazil, threaded the West Indies, visited New Orleans and Texas, and which he was now refueling for the next hop, to San Diego and the Pacific, lay in still water surrounded by a Joseph's coat of many colors-spilled oil. From a rowboat full of boys nearby fluttered a yellow butterfly, a lighted match. Poof! The Joseph's coat burst into flaming flags...