Word: frocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoes on the wrong feet and was buried by sympathetic friends under an upside-down tombstone; "Guttersnipe," a filthy scavenger who was hooted by the city's children, and left $15,000 to one moppet who did not hoot; "The Great Unknown," an insane dandy in frock coat and varnished boots who never looked at or spoke to anyone; "Whispering Riley," who never spoke above a murmur; "Rosy the Tramp" who shaved his whiskers with a candle; Freddy Coombs, who thought he was George Washington; "The Drummer Boy" who never ceased drumming. But maddest and best loved...
...their 22nd quadrennial conference, they were invited to think of Mississippi. They chose Jackson, smallest town in winch they had ever met. Last week Jackson's hotels were brimming with Southern Methodists, 708 delegates and alternates, male and female, laymen and churchmen. In best gown, business suit or frock coat they attended a reception at the Governor's mansion, motored about the surrounding countryside, shook hands with one another, chatted and lobbied for votes as churchmen will. Day & night the delegates converged upon Jackson's big, bare, steel-beamed, municipal auditorium dedicated to World War dead. There...
Last month Harvard Professor Elliott Carr Cutler, 1909 Class Marshal, remembered his pleasant post-graduate visit with "Putzy's" family in Munich. To the reunion invitation Professor Cutler added a personal note asking "Putzy" to be an aide and wear a silk hat and a frock coat again at Cambridge in June. In Berlin last week, invitation in hand, exuberant, psychic Herr Hanfstaengl bubbled: "I am looking forward to the reunion with the greatest anticipation. I may even, as a surprise, take with me my film, Hans Westmar [TIME, Dec. 25]. That film can show better than any words...
...Since 1930 the Freethinkers have been collecting funds to erect a statue of their agnostic hero, first planning to dedicate it on the centenary of his birth last August. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, commissioned to make the statue, completed in his Texas studio a clay model of the orator, in frock coat with arms akimbo. When cast in bronze the figure will be 12 ft. high, standing upon an 8-ft. marble base. Before that can take place, however, the House must also approve S. J. Res. 21, President Roosevelt sign it and the Robert Ingersoll Monument Association (headed...
...having his paddles slapped by the automobile, steel, and coal industries, for such threats to one of them are threats to all, and not to be tolerated. It should not be long before Hitler realizes, as Mussolini before him, that it is less expensive to play in with the frock-coated captains of business and finance than carelessly to aggravate them...