Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Centre of interest was the Barber, who, swathed in a large white jacket borrowed from the cook and carrying a sanguine daubed wooden razor, was none other than Edward Windsor. No newcomer to the Equator is H.R.H. He first crossed the Line in 1920, crossed again last year on his interrupted African hunting trip which he is now completing, and was once incautious enough to allow himself to be festively photographed in a blonde wig, a most effeminate dressing gown, a palpably false bust...
Before noon officials began to arrive in their motors to greet President & Mrs. Hoover. Citizen Hunefeld recognized many of them-Vice President Curtis, Speaker Longworth, the British Ambassador in his red jacket. Finally the great White House gates swung open and Citizen Hunefeld marched grandly at the head of his procession up the curving sidewalk to the big glass doors of the White House. When these opened Citizen Hunefeld did a gallant thing: removing his cap, he stepped aside to allow Mrs. Barrett to lead the line past the President...
...Christmas Eve the President and Mrs. Hoover were giving a party to the children of his Secretariat. Dessert was just being served when Secretary Lawrence Richey whispered something in the President's ear. Quickly the President arose, put an overcoat on over his dinner jacket, hurried out of doors to see flame-shot clouds of smoke billowing from his office building, 200 ft. from the White House proper...