Word: overcoats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this meeting, but John J. Raskob snatched it from their greedy fingers. Eleven o'clock at Belle Isle was the hour. Smith skipped his breakfast to make it on time. With care he picked his Mtire?silk-faced cutaway, striped trousers, silk-topped patent leather button shoes, semi-formal overcoat with velvet collar. One hand picked up a cane; the other put a cigar in a mouth corner. The Brown Derby, above all, was set at an undefeated angle. Away streaked the baby-blue Rolls-Royce, minus any hooting police-escort. Cushioned snugly at Mr. Smith's 'elbows were...
...accompanied only by Sir Godfrey Thomas, his private secretary. Together they tramped over to the Station Hotel, unwelcomed, unescorted, and there they took a room and sitting room, bathed, breakfasted. Just as the station clock neared nine, Edward of Wales drew on capacious rubbers, donned a grey checked overcoat, struggled into a great black ulster with an astrakhan collar, clapped a bowler (derby) on his head, and was off by limousine to inspect in three days slightly over 100 bleak, grimy villages. Appropriately a driving snow swirled about the royal car and patriotic British correspondents wired to anxious London that...
...unknown assailant who struck Dr. George Kovacs, chiropodist, of 125, Tremont Street over the head and dashed from his office at 5 o'clock last Friday, left behind him an overcoat which contained the plans for the new Harvard Gymnasium, it was learned last night at Police Headquarters. He had stolen the plans, which were in the form of blue-prints, from a contractor on the Wellesley-Boston train last Wednesday morning, and was in the Doctor's office having his foot treated when the assault was committed. A warrant has been sworn out for the criminal, but the police...
...Kovacs, 55, and married of 1799 Dorchester Avenue while in his office and working on the foot of a patient at 125 Tremont Street, the patient jumped up and struck the doctor on the head with an iron bolt done up in cloth. He then rushed out leaving his overcoat. He is described as a man about 30, 5 feet 6, weight 150, with light brown hair. Dr. Kovacs was taken to the Haymarket Relief Hospital in our Ambulance and treated for 2 lacerated wounds of the scalp. The man wanted left the office with a bandage on his left...
Sticks and stones were pressed into use to mark the goals, and somebody's stray overcoat was the best apology for a net that could be found. Wild shooting sent the pucks into orchards and meadows and deep tangled wildwoods beyond the confines of the pond rink and no sandlot baseball game was ever more defendant on the finding of the only ball in the party than was the Harvard hockey team on the luck of the seekers after lost pucks...