Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upset the Tweed Ring in New York City by his cartoons, turned his devastating pen upon Greeley. Gratz Brown, a Missourian, who was Greeley's running-mate, was not known (by sight) in Manhattan, so Cartoonist Nast pictured him as a tag on Greeley's white coat. But Greeley fared even worse. A few days before the election Greeley's wife died. Greeley himself wrote a few days later: "I was the worst beaten man who ever ran for high office. And I have been assailed so bitterly that I hardly knew whether I was running...
...night of Feb. 7 that Tschoudnovsky, accompanied by Red soldiers, went to the prison to inform the captives of their immediate execution. Admiral Kolchak was in his cell, fully dressed under a fur coat, and wearing a Cossack hat. He was expecting rescue at the hands of White forces under General Kappel, who was not far distant...
...happened last week that the Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin gave a dinner at the Russian Embassy for his colleague, M. Herbette, French Ambassador-designate to Russia. M. Herbette pondered long over his dress. Should it be corduroy pants, a flannel shirt and a shoddy coat? Or the capitalistic regalia of full evening dress? Inquiries, discreetly made, revealed that the sombre black and white of evening dress would be worn. But still, the reception and dinner would be a simple affair, for the Bolsheviki are noted for their Spartan simplicity...
...this overwhelming offer is appended a condition. "Mind you," says he, "I'm not looking for a job. I absolutely refuse to accept any salary for the work. All I ask is railroad fares back and forth and a raccoon coat...
...would be a simple matter to establish an endowment to insure the payment of "faros back and forth". And, as for the raccoon coat, though the winter is still young, Max Keezer could doubtless find one he would be willing to part with at a sacrifice...