Word: overcoat
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...never wore an overcoat or a hat, except a coonskin cap in Winter...
...Russian schools dealing with the personal, pedagogical, cultural and political capacities of each individual. The winners of this adapted army efficiency test will receive prizes as follows, in addition to the somewhat embarrassing distinction of having their names engraved upon red tablets of honor. First Prize - One overcoat, one suit of clothes, one pair of boots, one watch and 1,000 this year's rubles for buying books (or a book). Second Prize -Delete the watch. Third Prize-Delete the watch and the suit of clothes. It is rumored that other prize winners will receive books on "Communistic Ideology...
...bootlegging brewers. They offered him $360,000 a week if he would turn his back while they flooded the cities of the Central Atlantic states with beer from an anonymous "brewery city." He cunningly fed the hopes of the bootleggers. He accepted $25,000 in advance bribes, a fur overcoat and an automobile of anonymous make (specifically not a Rolls-Royce). He allowed himself to be taken on a three-day party to Atlantic City and elsewhere while the bootleggers recklessly dissipated "grands" ($1,000 bills). He had them show him where their contraband was hidden. Under his encouragement...
...proper equipment with him when travelling, must choose between missing an adventure or going with clothes unsuited to the occasion. To go abroad for even a short business trip, a man should take his dinner clothes, three or four sacque suits, a heavy overcoat for traveling and a light coat to do for mild weather wear in some dark color which may also be worn in the evening. In Europe, a top hat is worn with dinner clothes at night. If a man is going about socially, he needs his dress clothes as well, for in London at this time...
...short time ago a college man missed an overcoat from an auto which he had left in front of the dormitory. On the same day a rug was taken. Both these losses were reported to the watchman, but for a week the case remained a mystery. Finally someone getting out of bed at six in the morning happened to look out of the window, and saw a boy crawling from under the building. Upon investigation the missing rug and overcoat were found stored away beneath the steps. Further investigation disclosed the fact that the boy had a home in Cambridge...