Word: overcoat
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Sticks and stones were pressed into use to mark the goals, and somebody's stray overcoat was the best apology for a net that could be found. Wild shooting sent the pucks into orchards and meadows and deep tangled wildwoods beyond the confines of the pond rink and no sandlot baseball game was ever more defendant on the finding of the only ball in the party than was the Harvard hockey team on the luck of the seekers after lost pucks...
...friend for 40 years, was above it all, irreproachable. The grand jury hoped and trusted this was so, but continued its inquiry. Things were looking up for Director Davis. Nevertheless, one day last week, Mayor Harry Arista Mackey bustled into the mayoral office and, without pausing to remove his overcoat, dictated a letter to Director Davis announcing that he (Davis) was resigning. It pained him to do this, said Mayor Mackey, but it was "the only wise thing." It was "no reflection upon his [Davis'] integrity in the slightest degree" but Mayor Mackey perceived that Philadelphia's police...
...bound miraculously to Heaven. Three centuries later, Chemist Joseph Priestley advised his fellow Englishmen that the miraculous substance would erase pencil-markings, might well be called "rubber." It was only 100 years ago that a Scotchman named Mackintosh dissolved rubber in naptha and perpetuated his name in an overcoat. And in 1839, U. S.-born Charles Goodyear dropped rubber (mixed with sulphur) on a hot stove and witnessed the first, accidental process of vulcanization...
...conspicuous manner. Neff's description follows: Age 21. Height 5 ft. 10 in. Weight 165. Medium brown hair, out short. Bluish-grey eyes. Believed to be wearing a single-breasted suit of dark brown or grayish mixture. He is known to have been wearing a hat but no overcoat. No luggage. Those having any information are asked to communicate by phone or wire to J. R. Hamlen, Lehman Hall, Cambridge, Telephone, University...
Reception. To welcome and impress the Afghan Potentate, when his train chuffed into Moscow last week, there stepped forward a scrubby-bearded one-time peasant, clad in a plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress...