Word: oilskin
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...that year, 54,000 fans from both sides filled the stands of the Harvard Stadium, for the game to be played 50 years after the first match between the two schools. The weather was fair, though fans received an oilskin-covered issue of the Lampoon, which read "And the people scoffed at Noah...
Hastily procuring an oilskin wallet from his paisley smoking jacket, he withdraw from it the assorted collection of bizarre photographs he usually employs to punctuate his salon talks, and spoke at length on the culture, background, and Versatility of the "Contemporary college girl...
...Duce so ordered. Last week His Majesty, arriving at Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered cocked hat of the Admiral of the Fleet into a corner of the cabin in Flea Boat No. 1, His Majesty had the tiny craft's three 500 h.p. motors opened wide, disappeared toward Spithead in a choppy sea at 44 knots...
...knew his father, the Rebel Chieftain Calixto Garcia, received a momentous message from President McKinley asking his aid against the Spaniards. Like Writer Hubbard, General Carlos Garcia Velez was sure that it had been a written document and that Col. Andrew Summers Rowan had "sealed it up in an oilskin pouch, strapped it across his heart,'' carried it to Garcia...
...hairy arm; Kitty McCann, the Cap'n's wife, "half owner and sole boss of the schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...