Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago a big, leathery-faced gentleman in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, a blue serge coat and stiff straw hat, climbed carefully up to the driver's seat of a multi-horsepowered tractor reaper-binder and drove it around in a 90-acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition...
...juice. Perspiration poured into his eyes; he had his caddy fetch a towel from the clubhouse, complained that he could not hold his clubs. To remedy the last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might as well play without trousers, he kept his tweed jacket on. Hagen's silk shirt invited breezes. He smiled. At the seventy-first tee he lay on the ground for a brief rest, then rose, sent a perfect drive down the fairway. Mitchell sliced his iron shot. Hagen...
...health of learning and smiled at each other over the checker board. Though seven people were shot in Dorchester and a bank in Squantum was robbed, each decided that the spirit of education, being what it seemed, was ater all, worth the sacrifice. And each had engraved on his coat of arms "Felices Ter Et Amplius", which of course has much more to do with conjugal bliss than the spirit of learning but "policemen are policemen", as the Countess of Niblick once said in all truth and consequences...
Quite true, it needs a coat of paint...
Lord Chesterfield gave his name to a cigaret; Robert Burns to a cigar. English royalty brought no action because the name of Queen Victoria's consort was borrowed for a frock coat. George Washington is godfather to a kind of coffee; Abraham Lincoln to an automobile. Why then should a descendant of General Ambrose Everett Burnside object to having her uncle remembered for his whiskers? So pleaded the counsel defending Colgate & Co. against a suit for damages brought (TIME, May 31) by Miss Ella Patterson of Milwaukee, niece of the whiskered soldier. Her suit was dismissed...