Word: frocked
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...frock-coated reception committee, taken aback, dispensed with formalities. They gave Mrs. Walker some flowers, observed her strong white teeth when she smiled, her stylish stoutness when she walked, watched the unusual grinning couple enter a motor. They decided that Mr. Walker meant what he said about his plans being "indefinite." How could such a gamin be definite? They welcomed him as "Mayor of the greatest American capital," but, as he said later: "How in Hell can one be dignified in these surroundings...
...when the captain was on shore, a greasy Spaniard had externally applied explosives, which had blown a hole through her bottom and had driven her keel upward through her deck. Most of the sailors, 258 of them, and two of the officers had been killed. In Washington, men in frock coats sat around long tables and talked into a blue haze of cigar smoke. Ambassadors called on one another and chatted over tea or whiskey & soda. In munitions factories and arsenals, men in dirty shirts lifted heavy kegs and barrels, piled them together in hundreds, in thousands. And in little...
Last fortnight, for example, the President reviewed the United States Fleet. Last week Mr. Kent reviewed the review under the heading: A New Way to Review a Fleet. When Presidents Roosevelt, Wilson and Harding reviewed the Fleet, said Mr. Kent, "silk-hatted and frock-coated [they] stood rigidly on the bridges of their boats from the moment the first gun was fired until the last ship had passed. . . . Full dress is the order of the day. It isn't a matter of taste-it's orders. And presence of the President on the bridge is essential...
...every head but one rested a flat-topped, tasseled cap; all but one pair of legs marched swathed in the folds of the academic gown. The lone exception was Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who, with silk hat, striped trousers, frock coat and pale blue, pearl-studded tie headed the parade.* He was to deliver the Commencement Address to the 1927 Class of Washington University...
...around a towering monument of Winged Victory, stand the leaders of the French nation-Marshal Joffre in the centre, "Tiger" Clémenceau, arms crossed, four-square with hands behind his back, with Marshal Foch close by, brooding alone at one side; President Poincaré, expectant, surrounded by frock-coated colleagues...