Word: frocks
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...left his home in Paddington. Author of a series of articles entitled Unmoral Girls, Vacuum Cleaner Vampires, Is Nudism Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon. At 9 o'clock that morning a pair of Scotland Yard detectives dropped around to talk to Herbalist McMahon, but he had already left the house...
...have the 1940 Olympics aboard the Queen Mary? The track must be lightning fast, thus enabling the contestants to dress like gentle-men-morning races in morning jackets, afternoon in frock coats and evening events in Tux or tails...
Ever since Victoria's blameless Consort Albert introduced the knee-length frock coat or "Prince Albert," it has been required wearing at Buckingham Palace for officials in "close attendance" on the Sovereign. This week King Edward ordered worn instead the morning coat...
...fact she's taken to hiding my cane and gloves of late. That was, however, all right. I could manage to steer clear of her on the twenty-ninth by taking Alice to the movies. But now Alice has started it. Last night she got out the pink frock. She's bought herself a pair of silk stockings and the daintiest little...well, she's got the gleam in her eye too, and the Dormouse has been ribbing her about her first 'opportunity...
...Chamber procedure and vote-counting. Afloat for some weeks has been the ugly rumor that sometimes the official tellers rig the count just a little bit, say five or six votes. Nobody else in the Chamber last week liked Félix's suggestion in the least. The frock-coated presiding officer, Monsieur le President Fernand Bouisson, refused to recognize him. When Felix made a dash for the tribune with a briefcase in his hand, President Bouisson, who had adjourned the Chamber for the day, scurried for the door, calling back over his shoulder, "You are out of order...