Word: frocks
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...always with a troupe of male and female dancers, singers, musicians. Mysore cooks went everywhere with him to prepare lavish, condimented Indian dishes. The Yuvaraja'?, parties at London's Dorchester House hotel were famous. A passionate gadgeteer, Prince Wadiyar, clad in magenta turban and sky-blue tweed frock coat, would stand all night under arc lights and before a microphone, alternately crooning into it U. S. jazz hits, chatting through it with his guests, and barking orders at his servants, who carried small loudspeakers or wore earphones...
...frock-coated diplomat's social aplomb...
...morning of July 15 was a scorcher in Tokyo. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita's homey wife rose early to prepare her husband a jug of iced barley-tea. American-born Lady Craigie, wife of the British Ambassador, slipped into a light blue frock which was a perfect match for her husband's blue official limousine, and drove with him to Foreign Minister Arita's official residence. There, among flocks of photographers, suave little Hachiro Arita shook Sir Robert's hand, took him upstairs, sat him down on the opposite side of a desk no bigger than...
...this short-circuit of Lincoln legend, the cinemaudience meets Ann Rutledge in the first five minutes, pauses at her gravestone five minutes later. Abe Lincoln rides into Springfield from New Salem in frock coat and stovepipe on a mule, cuts his own hair, thrums a jews-harp, halts a lynching of his first clients with the argument that the mob is trying to do him out of his first retainer. He wins a tug-of-war against the Hog Wallow boys by hitching the anchor loop of the rope to a wagon, dances with Mary Todd, generally establishes himself...
...girl watching the dancers was beautiful but pale. Two young men introduced themselves, danced with her. found her hands cold and clammy. They gave her wine, but she spilled it on her white frock. After the dance they started to drive her to an address she gave. At a cemetery she asked to be let out of the car. One of the boys threw his coat over her shoulders, followed her into the graveyard. She vanished, he fell dead. Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months...