Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This first contretemps safely weathered, there remained the problem of washing Tricky, the Queen's pet spaniel. Tricky had managed to soil her coat on a lump of railway grease. Hot water in quantities was requisite. Resourceful, a lady-in-waiting heated pot after pot of water in an electric percolator...
...forecaster is hard enough. What with Yale and Dartmouth. Princeton and Navy, etc., I become convinced that the forecaster's heyday is the first two weeks in October. Most forecasters, that is. But not I. "The blacker the cloud, the silverer the lining," was graven on the Forecast coat of arms centuries ago when the first Baron Forecast was Lord High Grave-Digger in Waiting for the wives of Henry VIII. And that's the way I am. So paste these in you hat until you read your Sunday papers...
...shows is, never to survive the two established political parties in America. This fact is perhaps abhorent to the young man who distrusts the old names and the old battle cries, but if he really prefers results to flag waking and accomplishment to revolutionary words, he will take his coat off and try to make himself heard inside the party councils...
...course, Mr. Mills might return from the opera some evening, take off his top hat and dress coat, roll up his sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot...
...slovenliest man in all Britain writes some of its loveliest prose. Lord Dunsany takes childish pride in the sag of his coat and the splay of his collar, what time he gets lost on a golden road to nowhere, beholding faery sights. Shadows are among his specialties. For The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) he invented a whole zone of twilight, where unicorns browsed and cabbage-roots were thunderbolts. Now he writes of a crone, cheated of her shadow by a magician of old Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood...