Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madrid, Mr. Ogden Haggerty Hammond, President of the Hoboken Terminal Co., rode in a golden coach. The coach received its first coat of gilt in the 16th Century; so did four other coaches which rumbled after...
...passage of the resolution in the Senate was the baiting of Senator James Thomas Heflin, who had the resolution in charge. Senator Heflin has a fine political figure, almost comparable to that of Chief Justice Taft. Mr. Heflin moreover decks his eloquent proportions in a great cutaway coat with a light vest of cream or buff color. In hotter weather he varies his garb by wearing a light colored Palm Beach suit of ample proportions. He has a ruddy face, which he adorns with eyeglasses that dangle by a black cord. His manner is suave and expansive. His voice, when...
...only use that I could possibly make of a coon-skin coat is to cover my embarrassing set of knock-knees," was the statement issued by Stanley Lupino yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter, when questioned as to his opinion on Fanny Brice's recent lament for a fur coat. "I might use such a coat in a game of hide-and-seek," he added...
...make heads or tails of it all. Oh, it was very funny, and quite too cynical for words, but somehow just what it meant the audience couldn't decide. They stood around in wavering little circles in the lobby between the first and second acts and tugged at friends' coat-tails and squeaked "What do you think this is all about?" And the friends squeaked back, "I don't know, I'm sure...
...Metropolitan Opera House. Thousands jammed their way through the great front doors, determined not to miss the only performance of the season of the first "Ring" opera. In through the back door went a short, dumpy old lady, in a seagoing hat and an old brown storm coat. She was Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 65 years old, appearing at the Metropolitan for the first time in nine years, 38 years* after her debut there as Erda. It was late in the opera and an audience, unused to operas with no intermission, was shuffling restlessly. Then blue light played on one corner...