Word: frocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rapture in a Frock Coat. When Rilke was eleven, his father suddenly yanked him away from his dolls and shoved him into a military academy to make a man of him. Such a sudden change in weather might have cracked tougher spirits, and young Rilke barely kept from going to pieces. At 16, he finally persuaded his family to let him study the classics and go on to the university. Soon he was a well-known figure in the streets of Prague, a wraith-pale young man in a black frock coat and broad-brimmed hat, drifting vaguely along...
Efficiency Check. Canada's present unofficial hangman learned his trade and adopted his name from an earlier Hangman Ellis* who died in 1938. The earlier Ellis worked in a frock coat and striped trousers and sometimes sported a gardenia in his lapel. Occasionally he handed a stop watch to a newsman attending a hanging, so as to check on his own efficiency. His successor, an Ontario farmer, goes in for no such display...
Emperor Hirohito was anxious to do everything in accordance with Japan's new democracy-or at least in compromise with it. Instead of arranging his second daughter's marriage through a go-between in the time-honored way, he sent his frock-coated vice chief chamberlain directly to the bridegroom-elect. "Their Majesties, the Emperor and Empress," hissed the imperial emissary, bowing low, "would like to have their daughter married to Honorable Takatsukasa. What are his feelings on the subject?" "I accept," said 26-year-old Toshimichi Takatsukasa, a $20-a-month clerk in the Traffic Museum, bowing...
...name die each year. We never identified him." He gazed at the general, but the general offered no clue. Nearby a mustachioed captain of colonial infantry, stern devotion to duty written all over his young face, looked up at an overweight nude (see cut). As a statesman turned his frock-coated back, a nameless admiral, whose neck, broken in transit, gave him more the look of a fey midshipman, cast a come-hither glance at a Grecian faun...
...Amsterdam's Royal Palace one morning last week, 335 frock-coated Dutch and Indonesian officials gathered around a green baize table to hear Juliana, Queen of The Netherlands, end 340 years of Dutch rule in Indonesia. Juliana entered the palace hall followed by her husband, Prince Bernhard. From her crimson-upholstered armchair, she spoke clearly and melodiously: "Immeasurable," said she, "is the satisfaction of a nation that finds its liberty realized . . ." As Juliana finished, the palace carillon pealed out first the Indonesian and then the Dutch anthem, and one of her four uniformed lackeys fell flat on his face...