Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a despatch from Madrid announced new hope for a successful compromise between thrills and humanity. Utilizing discarded automobile tires a rubber coat has been devised for the bull ring horse, thick straw pads hung along the sides. It is hoped that bulls will not object to the innovation; will be satisfied with burying their horns in straw; will not insist upon horseflesh or nothing...
...Three days later, the Rev. Bowlby grew vexed, charged the press with publishing "false and libelous statements." His version is that he caught a gentleman's arm to prevent him from fighting, while someone else grabbed the gentleman by the coat and pulled him to the floor...
...water. The men on shore idly discussed how best to save the floundering, choking puppy. Not so Celeste Corcoran, 20-year old Vassar senior. Treading lightly but swiftly, crawling the last few yards, she went to Riff-Raff across the cracking ice, dragged him out, wrapped him in her coat, returned to shore, glared at the men and said: 'You men make me sick and tired.'" Fraulein Clairenore Stinnes, daughter of the late famed industrialist Hugo Stinnes: "I announced last week that next May I will set out to circle the globe and visit all important countries...
...Sheltons of the Collinsville robbery. Allied with the law for the duration of the Shelton trial, Charles Birger, sleek, suave, smartly-tailored, stepped into the witness' box, said, "Howdy, Sheltons!" spent 20 minutes swearing away 25 years of three men's lives. Beneath his well-cut coat he wore a steel-vest, bulletproof...
Enthusiastic thousands packed the gallery as five dogs, held worthy of supreme honor, entered the arena. There was Southport Blue Knight, gorgeous collie with flowing coat; Dapple Joe, gaunt, sleek pointer; Morningside Prince, white bull of massive jaw; Little Rajah, mincing Pomeranian; Pinegrade Perfection, waddling Sealyham with luxuriant mustache...