Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People on the tender, when it was plowing out to the Munargo one day last week, thought that going home had proved too much for one young man. As the tender passed the buoy by the Hog Island lighthouse, the young man whipped off his coat and dove overboard. His wife fainted. Passengers stumbled over suitcases to the rail. Then they saw that the young man, swimming powerfully, was saving a small boy. Tender-Captain Russell's ten-year-old had tumbled off the deck. Charles F. Havemeyer, onetime (class of 1921) Harvard footballer, N. Y. Stock Exchange member...
Died. Dr. George Byron Gordon, 57, able archaeologist, director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum; at Philadelphia, of a fractured skull. After a dinner of the Wilderness Club, where Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt told of their recent Asiatic explorations, Dr. Gordon started upstairs to get his coat, fell backward, cracked his skull on the marble stairs. It is believed he was stricken with paralysis...
some of the crowd tittered. Miriam Amanda Ferguson, outgoing Governess, had on an old grey coat...
...officials watched his demonstration. The small box, 6 in. x 4 in. x 1 in. which he drew from his pocket was, he explained, a radio receiving set. He snowed how the aerial, a tiny wire, could be fastened to the lapel, buttons or cuffs of one's coat. He brought out collapsible earphones and an electric bulb to be attached to one's person conveniently. The bulb would signal when one was being called. It would signal to policemen on their beats, for instance, if headquarters wanted to broadcast the description and license number of an automobileful...
...having given or taken bribes in 1917. The statement declared the players innocent. The "gift" from the White Sox to Boston in 1917 was an impropriety. It was not, said the statement, a crime. The Judge himself said nothing. With a twinkle in his eye he took his coat and hat off a hook, and went back to his hotel...