Word: overcoat
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...fence, they thought, would keep scornful George from violence. One morning last week they found him dead. Dreadful marks seamed his long throat, marks that made clear that the naked hands of a man had strangled him. In the cage, near his huddled body, they found a man's overcoat, a blood-stained handkerchief. The ground in the vicinity bore testimony to a fearful struggle...
...days later police discovered and took into custody one William C. Mclntyre, 28, upon whose forehead yawned a gash. Mr. Mclntyre identified the ostrich-trampled overcoat as his, acknowledged that he had been drinking, dimly remembered having lately taken a beating from some one, was astonished, mortified...
...miracle worker, a Messiah come to redeem the halt and the lame. Cameramen got him, always genial and accommodating, to pose in ridiculous circumstances. One picture showed him kinked over and looking solemnly at the twisted head of a boy whom he had cured. The doctor, in his overcoat and without his hat. looked exactly like a small-time ventriloquist with a dummy on his lap. Such blatancy, even though involuntary, was not ethical, and the U. S. profession damned...
...speak of spring fever would be pretty bad. Nevertheless, this business of wearing no overcoat is at best perturbing. It is comparatively easy to wander from lecture to lecture when the seven minutes between them are wet and disagreeable, but with this weather the situation changes...
...furiously at the grease paint on his gaunt features. The curtain had just rung down on his matinee (That Smith Boy) and he* had an engagement even more pressing than seeing a manager at the Algonquin or sipping something cold in a friend's flat. He jerked on his overcoat, flung himself into a taxi, leaped out again at the Seventh Regiment Armory, where he plunged into a dense crowd of humanity and was seen no more, until he emerged in tennis costume on a brilliantly illuminated court surrounded by a crowd. There, for three hours, pausing sometimes to wipe...