Word: mackintoshes
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...people to glare at you, pretend to stare out the window and finally move away. Readers realizing that private mirth is a public nuisance will, unless malicious, arrange to meet Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge in some secluded spot. He is a rather large, angular young man with a napping yellow mackintosh, a piercing eye, a jumpy back collar-button and no economic roots in society save vigorous tendrils of loquacity with which he attaches, from dismayed friends, the trifling bits of capital necessary to promote such glittering projects as a trick-dog college; a serious-minded fistic behemoth; the abduction...
...vaults with the pole, having bested all comers at the state track meet. He commands the Wabash basketball team, having been "almost unanimous" choice of sport-writers for All-Western forward last year. Last fortnight he trod in the footsteps of Wabash's president, Dr. G. L. Mackintosh, of Indiana's onetime U. S. senator, A. J. Beveridge, to the rostrum of the Indiana Oratorial Contest, and like them won it. That earned him the right to proceed, as Indiana's most eloquent undergraduate son, to the Interstate Oratorical Contest at Chicago in April. The famous interstate...
...this case the canny Scot is James A. MacKintosh of Edinburgh, who is at present attending Princeton University as one of the holders of the Davison Scholarships, which correspond to the American Rhodes Scholarships...
...MacKintosh, the son of a professor at Edinburgh University, served in the Royal Navy during the World War. When the war ended, however, he transferred to Oxford University, where he entered Baliol College. While at Baliol he was elected captain of the golf team and was a member of the Rugby Eleven, at the same time maintaining such a high standard in his scholastic work that he succeeded in winning the scholarship which brought him to Princeton...
Once the unsportsmanlike downpour, however, having seen its victims definitely wedged each in his own Sitz bath, had started in to do a little constructive drenching, the laugh was shed gently from the oilcloth shoulders of the proletariat onto the sogginess of mackintosh and rubber-silk rainster. It is not hard to predict that another such a day will see the covering of mother's kitchen table going at a premium and linoleum lap-robes across the knees of the elite...