Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signed the Locarno Pacts last week. Later he drove from the Palace of Buckingham to that of St. James's and held his first levee of the season. To St. James's came many an ambassador, came also Premier Stanley Baldwin, laced into a gold-buttoned coat, abashed beneath a huge military hat, fiddling speculatively with a sword...
Thoroughly annoyed, Carol threw his companion's mink coat over his arm, seized her bouquet of roses, and requested her, in Roumanian, to leave the wagon-lit by a door at the opposite end from that whence he descended. The cameramen, torn between the two good shots thus offered, exploded their flashlights frantically, cursed vociferously, literally stalked their photographic game...
...have perhaps more space in which to avoid one another than anywhere else in Paris. He meticulously read out of his notebook a list of the personal damages sustained from flying glass: Un?The derby hat of Marshal Foch pierced by a sliver. Deux?The lapel of his civilian coat likewise rent. Trois?Minor lacerations suffered by Mlle. Godart, by her mother who was riding with her, by Captain Hopital, aide to Marshal Foch...
...Probably the finest chairs of the period in existence. [For once the man in the frock coat, F. A. Chapman, auctioneer, was speaking with the strictest accuracy.] I think I cannot do less than start them at $10,000.... Five?... All right, we all of us have to get warmed up... Six?... You are too generous, Sir.... Who'll give me seven?... I have seven. Eight?. . . Will nobody... Oh, many thanks. I am your debtor, madame; you owe me nothing.... And now nine?... I have nine; I have ten... ten thousand dollars. That was, I think, my first suggestion.... Eleven...
...Fevered patricians did not get up and shout their bids; they were represented by their agents who, to indicate a raise of $1,000, lifted a forefinger, waved a catalog or merely jerked their heads. One dealer made most of his bids by leaning back and nonchalantly tugging the coat of an auctioneer who stood near him and who appeared to translate these tugs into dollars according to their strength. The most interesting item on the fourth day was a pair of William and Mary walnut chairs sold to Alvin T. Fuller (Governor of Massachusetts) for $1100. Receipts for four...