Word: overcoat
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...never wears an overcoat and who has long since discarded the eyeglasses he wore as a young man, rushed down to Washington and taking Housing Administrator Moffett by the arm, began to talk like an express train. "Look at the millions of dollars banks and insurance companies have," said he to Mr. Moffett, "but are afraid to invest. Put a government guarantee on my mortgage and they will not be afraid. The Housing Administration has never guaranteed a $5,500,000 mortgage or anything like it, you say? Well, what of it? The law does not forbid it. Give...
...regular intervals he lays aside his battered hat and loose, gray overcoat to lecture profoundly before eager young men, for he knows perhaps more about a certain literature than any other living...
...through his private peephole to the stage, heard what he heard in his office as Aida progressed, caught his unposed facial expressions as he listened to Martinelli's high notes, to the thunderous applause. Finally, the camera watched him clap on his hat, shrug into his overcoat, trudge wearily down the corridor, away from the last Met opening he will ever direct...
When the S.S Rex steamed into New York harbor one evening last week reporters clambered aboard to interview a celebrated passenger. They found a nervous little man who wore spats, a bright checkered scarf and a fur-lined overcoat which, for no apparent reason, he kept putting on & taking off. Once he had located the spectacles perched on the top of his head, he gladly gave his autograph. He used Russian letters but he set them down vertically, like Chinese. Deciphered, they read: '"Igor Stravinsky...
...week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...