Word: coats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nancy had one defense. Other disillusioned Fasseferns had flung themselves over the Rossorty cliffs into the boiling sea-Nancy herself remembered the white-haired master in scarlet hunting-coat madly spurring his ash-white horse over the cliff. So Nancy spurred herself and jumped, knowing as she did so that no groom's child could be so brave...
...considered one of the richest men in the U. S. Blind in his right eye from an early accident, he used, in the 1820's, to wear his hair long, and tied into a short pigtail. Always he wore a white neckcloth and a Revolution-style coat. He left his fortune to charity and to his college. His beautiful insane wife died before...
...assigned to the jail pharmacy by Superintendent William L. Peake. Thirty years ago in Kansas, before he shot his foot and got the insurance money that started him in the oil game, Harry Ford Sinclair was a registered pharmacist. Now he was given a white coat and set to rolling quinine pills for sick convicts, of which there were seven in the jail last week...
...architect's office, and many a book he thumbed. At 26 he was a practicing architect and main support of his family, sending through college four brothers and one sister. At office at eight, he often leaves at seven. During working hours, his coat is always off, his hair is always mussed. He is a member of six golf clubs. But he has never had a golf club in his hand...
...great things large. What was the true reading in a passage of Aristophanes, what the usage of a certain word in Byzantine Greek,--these were matters on which a man might well reflect and labor. But of what consequence was it if the breakfast was slight or the coat worn...