Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week a mill near Tokyo's railway station closed down because of the general business depression, threw hundreds of factory hands out of work. Kiyoshi Tanabe, a railway flagman employed at the plant, ate a large meal, drank quantities of water, then kilting his short cotton jacket about him swarmed up the silent factory chimney and sat on the top vowing that he would never come down till his fellow workmen were re-engaged...
Stuart was a fine figure of a man, just under six feet, big-boned, with a wide-flaring bronze beard and sweeping mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season...
...foot with his two companions. They had not walked far when they stumbled upon something which looked like a graveyard. Digging away the snow and ice which neatly covered the mounds, they found skeletons of men. Tucked away in a cairn of rocks was a faded blue jacket, part of a tent. They had discovered the last camping ground of the Franklin Expedition, which set out from England 85 years ago to find a northwest passage to the Pacific...
...Schmeling, world's champion heavyweight fighter, driving a fast motorboat alone on Scharmützelsee (large lake 18½ mi. from Berlin) dove off just before the boat sank, shed his overcoat, leather jacket and boots while swimming, was rescued, exhausted, after...
...satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that lie would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood. Friends repeated the threat to the artist. When the Duke arrived unexpectedly at Goya's studio the next day he found his wife lightly but sufficiently clad in flimsy trousers, toreador's jacket, posing for another picture which sly Goya had stayed up all night to paint. Both pictures now hang side by side in the Seville gallery...