Word: frocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul John Kvale, slick-haired young Congressman from Minnesota, might join with the G. O. P. for organization purposes but his vote would no longer be the balance of power. Democratic chances were also enhanced by mutterings from Wisconsin where eight "Progressive" Republicans, under the leadership of cross-eyed, frock-coated little John Mandt Nelson, announced they would ditch their party on the organization vote unless G. O. P. leaders promised to relax the "gag rule" of debate and allow floor votes on pet insurgent measures. Even long-legged, grinning John Quillin Tilson, last year's Republican floor leader...
...Versailles Peace Conference to paint the honey-bearded chef of the Hotel Chatham in Paris. He told President Wilson, General Pershing, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson what he thought of them and earned the subsidiary nickname of "The Wasp." When he could not stand the idea of drawing another frock coat, he would paint himself again, accenting his pixie face, dressing himself in outlandish costumes. There exist striking self-portraits of Billy Orps in a succession of funny hats, in racing silks as a jockey, as a major in his muffler and trench helmet, as a wildfowler, as a painter...
...statesmen were whisked through streets lined with Carabinieri in full dress, past cheering crowds to the Grand Hotel on the Piazza delle Terme. There was only one untoward incident. A group of German tourists on one corner suddenly bellowed HOCH HITLER! as the cortege passed. At the hotel a frock-coated manager proudly told the Chancellor of Germany that he would have the honor of sleeping in the same room once used by the late John Pierpont Morgan...
...potential rogue, a white-haired gentleman of 6. ft. 7 in., dressed in a clerical collar, a black-&-white ascot tie and a frock coat of curious cut, looked modestly down his long nose and held his gleaming silk hat on his knee...
...Arthur Barlow, an ironmonger's clerk from Derby. Because he has raised thousands of pounds for the Derby hospital by organizing charity concerts, Mr. & Mrs. Barlow were invited by George V. Mrs. Barlow gave up her summer vacation so that Arthur Barlow might attend properly accoutered in topper, frock coat and high button shoes. "I wish my wife could have gone too," said he last week, "she would have enjoyed it so much. I saw tears in her eyes as my train left Derby...