Word: overcoat
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...their first week at Harvard, if not long before, but they may pass him many times in the street before knowing him by sight. There is nothing to notice about a little fellow of 66, as small, indeed, as the smallest freshmen, in traditional oldtime professorial garb--old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Burges Johnson (late of Vassar...
...their first week .at Harvard, if not long before, but they may pass him many times in the street before knowing him by sight. There is nothing to notice about a little fellow of 66, as small, indeed, as the smallest freshman, in traditional oldtime professorial garb-old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Bur-ges Johnson (late...
...shut off his elevator car Christmas eve, Herman addressed a fellow operator who was struggling into an overcoat...
Only their bishop had an overcoat yet without shivering, in waterfront breezes of December, 214 curious-looking people stood three hours one day last week on a Manhattan pier. Then they sailed on the S. S. Western World for Paraguay...
...Bring me my overcoat," said Nikola Pashitch gruffly. Bearded and patriarchal, he spoke with the quiet firmness of one who has been his country's Premier eleven times. He had taken only a glass of milk and some cheese for supper, and soon he would be 81, and the doctors had spoken of apoplexy? but he was Pashitch. A crisis threatened, and King Alexander was waiting. When his coat was brought M. Pashitch slung it about him, kissed his eldest daughter gravely, and rolled away in his limousine...