Word: overcoat
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...first of three layers of stone had been put down for a foundation, and the stone was broken by man power: 30,000 hammers wielded by 30,000 men. The enormous field, the throng of sweating, straining workmen, were watched by a short, grey, bespectacled economist, wearing a tweed overcoat, an expression of awe on a face ordinarily expressionless. He was Lauchlin Currie, President Roosevelt's administrative assistant, sent on a fact-finding trip to China. Watching the mass of labor, Lauchlin Currie observed that the building of the pyramids must have looked like this. But in Chiang...
...merely ask a question suggested by three facts recited under National Affairs in your Feb. 17 issue. How will we be able to restore prosperity when the President wears a hat for twelve years, Tommy "The Cork" an overcoat for nine years and our new Ambassador to Britain owns no good shirts...
...known last week that Dr. Banting was not immediately killed in the crash, but was able to bandage the injuries of Captain Joseph Mackey, the only survivor. When he had done that, he lay down on a bed of broken branches, covered himself with his overcoat, and stopped being stubborn...
...Puzzled over a job for Tommy ("The Cork") Corcoran, who Washington rumor said was slated for an Assistant Secretaryship of the Navy-although some said War. Meanwhile "The Cork" prowled about more secretively than ever, still in too much of a hurry to buy a new overcoat to replace the seedy out-at-seams chesterfield he has worn for nine years...
...little crowd collected around him. Patrolman Maher held the gunman by the overcoat, started to turn him over, turned to warn the crowd away. "Back up, please," he said, "someone's liable to get hurt." As he rolled William over, the gunman's .38 came up. William Esposito pulled the trigger and Patrolman Maher slumped over, dead...