Word: frocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mayflower Hotel in Washington announced that William Jeffries Chewning Jr., young bank clerk who eloped with Margo, daughter of millionaire Senator James Couzens of Michigan would become one of its assistant managers, would report for work daily at 8 a. m. in frock coat and grey trousers, would take up "a receptive post in the main lobby...
...France (TIME, Sept. 15), delivered herself thus when she reached Manhattan (on the British ship Majestic) last week: "England is much more charming than France. I don't think I'll ever buy any Paris gowns again. In Paris it is difficult to get a dress or an evening frock for less than $300, and an average price is $700 to $800, which is ridiculously high...
...Yonkers. Rosie was old, fat, bobbed-haired, but just the same under- neath. On the living room wall was a large photograph of the man with whom Rosie had run away. Said Ashenden, "I wonder what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand...
...farm relief, protection of U. S. Indians, veterans' care. On the first two, at least, he is an expert along party lines. In appearance he tries to resemble Bryan, facially better resembles Benjamin Franklin. He is heavyset, bobbed-haired, mild-mannered. He dresses in the traditional rusty-grey frock coat, the wide-brimmed black hat of Bryan and the oldtimers, which helps distinguish him among the more babbitty modern members. In the House his voice assumes a peculiar, almost clerical (but not monotonous) drone. Then he is meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker...
...that cancellations of passages this year were mostly in first and de luxe class and that these, in turn, are not a major part of passenger travel. Besides all of which, there is freight. It seemed more likely that blame for the depression would again be laid upon the frock-coated, almost mysterious figure of Lord Kylsant...