Word: overcoat
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...have no place to spend it so will pay a large price for clothing. They bring trinkets and shell beads on board to trade for clothing. A string of beads that would cost 25? before the war they asked $2 for. I sold one an overcoat...
...watching the natives come aboard the ship bareheaded and after giving one of the natives a checkered cap they all bought one from me out of the slop chest. One of the natives was wearing a bathrobe that one of the crew sold him for an overcoat...
...mercury drops, layers of clothing are added inside the outer shell: extra shirts, trousers, underwear. The discovery by the Army Quartermaster Corps (which had few advantages in its youth) that separate layers of cloth are warmer than one extra-thick layer like an overcoat, is not new. Chinese coolies, for instance, have known for centuries that two 4-lb. coats are warmer than one 8-lb. coat...
Hess described the corpse as a Lieutenant of medium height, wearing the short overcoat. The cause of his death is not yet definitely established, but drowning seems probable. However, the bloody condition of the face indicated possible violence. A Second Lieutenant, 33 years old, was reported missing here on November 17, and the police believe it may be his body, but the Army has as yet issued no confirmation of this...
...curious magic of Frank Sinatra's voice was described once & for all by Ludwig Bemelmans when he wrote of another popular voice (Richard Tauber's) that it made you feel the way you do when a waiter reaches under your overcoat to settle your clothing. Sinatra's voice has become a national feature comparable to Yosemite Valley or the word lubritorium. For Sinatra to have played anyone other than himself would have been as preposterously irreverent as it would be for President Roosevelt to play anyone but F.D.R...