Word: overcoats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Cabot Lodge, senior Senator from Massachusetts: "I made a call on President Coolidge, leaving my overcoat, as is the custom of presidential callers, in Secretary Slemp's room. Newspapers reported that, coming out, I 'walked jauntily away' with the ulster of Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, little noting the spacious effect the garment gave me until I encountered 'strange articles' in the pockets. Retracing my steps, I encountered Henry Cabot Lodge, III, my grandson, whilom Harvard student, now a reporter on the Boston Transcript. But I refused to grant him an interview...
Holy Cross: two steamer rugs, one blanket, one auto robe, one overcoat, one glove, one fur neckpiece, three coat belts...
With that, Sir John, who had discarded his kingly robes for a more conventional frock coat, slipped on an overcoat of large black and white checks, pulled a cloth cap down over his eyes, and walked towards the stage entrance...
...arose before the break of day and after due preparations crossed over to the mainland at four o'clock. Here two automobiles were waiting, one was filled with luggage, the other was empty. A tall, well-groomed and self-possessed middle-aged man wearing a long gray tweed overcoat motioned to his servant to enter the luggage car; he entered the empty car and sat behind the steering wheel, and then motioned to the remaining three men to take their seats. One minute later both automobiles were carrying Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Crown Prince of Germany, his adjutant, Major...
...never wore an overcoat or a hat, except a coonskin cap in Winter...