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...Lord liked her letter, all right. It was right up his alley. Mollie arrived in a parasol of a beaver hat, a blousy frock with petticoat ruffles showing at the bottom over high-buttoned shoes. At her neck was a ruff of fluffy lace, setting off a face of infinite fiftyish sweetness. Lord read her letter over the air, let Mollie put in her own plea for fat boys. Next day they took her to the big stores, let her ride the escalators, bought her $50 worth of odds and ends, packed her off home...
...quipped, in 1870, that frock-coated John Insley Blair built railroads to use steel from his mills, towns to provide traffic for his railroads. One of the great railroad barons, he helped found the Chicago & North Western, the Lackawanna and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri. In 1890, at 88, he capped his great career by founding the famed banking firm of Blair...
...infantile State Agricultural College just founded at Ovid, N. Y. He nourished the little school with $300,000 and moved it to Ithaca. Alike in appearance to Arthur Train's venerable Ephraim Tutt, of Saturday Evening Post stories fame, Ezra's tall, spare figure, set off with frock coat and shiny stovepipe hat, was a familiar sight on the campus. His checks and gifts were also familiar--and welcome...
...partnership of these two strong men is a big story of U. S. journalism. Scott was a big, brusque, walrus-faced fighter, who read Horace for diversion and stepped up to bars in a long frock coat and high silk hat to call for a shot of straight whiskey. Pittock was barely five feet tall, with a goat-beard, cool, abstemious and calculating. In his later years he loved to ride a horse at the head of parades because it flattered his disproportionately large head and shoulders. Brought from England by his printer father when he was four, he went...
...president of International Secret Service Association Inc., famed private detective who investigated the Black Tom explosion, the Leo Frank case, the death of Starr Faithfull; by his own hand (shooting); in Manhattan. Once a group of skeptical New Yorkers hired him to rig out some of his men in frock coats, send them to the lectures of Explorer Frederick Cook to heckle him with troublesome questions...