Word: overcoats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dartmouth and Columbia games were close, just close enough, in fact, to convince all too many Harvard fans that the difference between victory and defeat was sitting in an overcoat in front of the Harvard bench. But through all the local pessimism Jordan remained confident of this team, never hedging from his prediction that Harvard would finish the season strongly and never trying to make the team play ahead of its pace...
Lord Raglan is enshrined in the "raglan" -a bulky overcoat with shoulders cut in a sporty, informal slope. As for Lord Lucan, only Irish tradition remembers him: it refers to him as "The Exterminator." Yet all three men would have one thing in common if they were alive today-a sense of horror at the reforms which they unwittingly helped to bring into the British
...Pulitzer Prize. Many of his sources were cultivated after hours in a bar across the street from the Federal Building, where Webster was the only P-D reporter to have a special "saloon expense account." His expense account also included other unorthodox items. Once he bought an overcoat to go to Indianapolis to cover a crime story. When other reporters refused to believe that he had charged the coat to the PD, Webster told them stiffly: "If you're going to act like an office boy, you'll be treated like an office...
...Confidential Clerk wears a full-length farcical overcoat; on the outside, all is mistaken identity and mixed-up parentage. It opens with Sir Claude Mulhammer, a financier who yearns to be a potter, taking on as private secretary his illegitimate son, Colby Simpkins-a young man who yearns to be an organist. If Sir Claude's wife, Lady Elizabeth, should take a liking to Colby, Sir Claude means to adopt him. Already part of the household are Lucasta Angel, his illegitimate daughter, and B. (for Barnabas) Kaghan, a foundling whom Lucasta plans to marry. Lady Elizabeth...
...opened "This valentine is guaranteed. . " and then groaned slightly when a pop-out gorilla leered at him with the inscription, ". . . to scare the YELL out of you." I guess I'm just too old to appreciate these things any more, Vag mumbled as he hunched under his tweed overcoat, and strode with determined sophistication out the door...