Word: frocked
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...wild-eyed goon (Jerry Colonna) who can't stop slapping his own face. There is also a capitalist (Robert Benchley) who appears at his daughter's wedding with a neon endorsement of his product-PARKER'S PASTE KILLS RATS-glowing on the back of his frock coat...
Late in the morning, on the lawn where the children had played, the crowd began to gather. Diplomats had been told to leave their frock coats at home, and did. Only two top hats were visible: on Charles M. Dale, a Governor (New Hampshire), and on George Jessel, a comedian. The crowd came in overcoats and galoshes, sloshed about in mud and slush...
...comment also was evident. Schiaparelli offered a model with a bustle in front. Lelong put jeeps on charm bracelets. Agile, aging (70) Madame Jeanne Lanvin (who served iced drinks to shivering patronesses} showed a slinky, black, backless, low-front evening dress called "Liberty." She also offered a simple frock of palest pink named "Free France...
...gateway). The churches should not stand on streets, but be "hidden in groves of trees with torn and mossy stone steps, fountains of water, and old flowering shrubs." He also 'recommends drastic changes inside the buildings. Noss says the Japanese are repelled by a minister who "wears a frock-coat sort of dress, and often walks about the church chancel in his stocking feet." He would have ministers borrow "the clean and flowing blue-and-white robes of the Shinto priests." Bible translations are in language that the average Japanese does not understand...
Bristles, Blood and Bones. There is Philip Danforth Armour, burnsided, frock-coated and wing-collared, an impassioned believer in human perfectibility who is supposed to have said: "I like to turn bristles, blood, bones and the insides and outsides of pigs and bullocks into revenue now, for I can turn the revenue into these boys and girls [who were supported by Armour funds], and they will go on forever." There is curly-haired, German-Jewish Nelson Morris, who got his start by investing his savings in pigs whose legs had been broken in transit and who is supposed to have...