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Word: frockcoated (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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Usage:

...Patron Clark. Important citizens, including Mayor John Clinton Porter, gathered in Pershing Square across from the Auditorium. Laudatory speeches were made. Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, an imposing grey-haired dowager representing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Woman's Committee, pulled a silken cord, revealed a bronze Beethoven in long frockcoat, baggy trousers, hands clasped characteristically behind his back. Philharmonic musicians, who gave the statue in Patron Clark's honor, sealed their gift with a stirring performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Los Angeles March | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

They pictured British Secretary for War Minister Viscount Hailsham pacing up & down his suite in the Hotel Chateau Laurier when his baggage failed to arrive. They imagined him exclaiming, "My Kingdom for a frockcoat and topper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Little Bird Told Me. . . . | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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