Word: frocks
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...King was there at Hurlingham in white tall hat and gray frock coat...
Bolshevik Ambassador Leonid Krassin dressed himself in his capitalistic attire of a frock coat and high silk topper. Madame and the Mademoiselles Krassin were adorned in the best that the art of Jean Patou could devise. Together they were driven to the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes...
...years earlier, had seen the girl Victoria take the crown. She had seen the entire reign of William IV. And in 1830, at the age of 5-two years after she had mastered the little hieroglyphics that are the alphabet-she remembered donning a little black and white mourning frock for George IV, may he rest in peace. Last week, Britain mourned for her, and Britain had a right to mourn for the mother of so much of Britain's virtue: mother of Viscount Haldane of Cloan, twice Lord Chancellor; mother of Miss Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane, scholar and first...
...commissioned by architects to do 18 statues for a building on the Strand. He supplied 18 heroic nudes in all postures. The public screamed. Epstein remarked : "The Capital of the British Empire is so used to statues in frock coats and trousers that these struck them as brutal truth." He was commissioned to make a monument for Oscar Wilde's grave in Paris. He furnished a "symbolic figure." The Prefecture of Police and the cemetery authorities interfered- hung a large bronze fig leaf on the statue. A few nights later, when Epstein was sitting in the Cafe Royal...
...Before the Reichstag went Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, President-elect of Germany, dressed in frock coat, black satin tie, patent leather shoes-a civilian, but one who looked a soldier from toes to hair. His entrance was greeted by shouts from the Communists, but the old soldier seemed not to be aware of their existence. He then subscribed to the oath of office...