Word: overcoat
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...little man in the damp overcoat was mildly drunk. He scraped his feet over the sawdust, scratched his rump, downed the last of his "mild and bitter...
Agreeable Creatures. Sir Thomas lives in a baronial Manhattan duplex with Tudor interiors, leaves it occasionally for walks in nearby Central Park. On warm days he sometimes has a taxi follow him with his overcoat. He smokes continuously, preferring light Havana cigars. He refers to tea as "poison" and says of his preference: "I have to drink a certain amount of Scotch, very much against my will." When his chronic gout once got the better of him in Philadelphia, he had him self pushed on the stage in a wheelchair and conducted the performance while sitting. At one New York...
General George Marshall buttoned himself into his four-starred overcoat and went to Capitol Hill. He had to go and explain the Army's plan to expand to 8,200,000 officers and men by 1943's end. Honest, persuasive George Marshall, who enjoys as much Congressional confidence as any other U.S. military figure, apparently made a good job of it. After a two-hour secret session, members of the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees told newsmen that many a doubter of the Army's program was now a convert...
...streets disclosed that Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had been assaulted at 2 a.m. on Fifth Avenue. Two strangers jumped him from behind, knocked him down, tried to throw him through a plate glass window, went off without robbing him. He got a sore rib, a thoroughly shredded overcoat...
Overdressed Man. In Knoxville, Tenn., Federal agents took into custody a man wearing a pair of overshoes, a pair of pants, three shirts, a pair of coveralls, two sweaters, four overalls, two overall jackets, five suit coats and one overcoat...