Word: overcoats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain place, and he asked me, "How do you come to school when it rains?" And I was just a small boy, so I answered offhand, "I come by horse-drawn carriage." And Nogi said, "When it rains you must come here on foot wearing an overcoat." So he was advocating a very frugal, strenuous, self-disciplined life. That made a profound impression...
...Martins--further into nowhere, down a wet, leaf-littered road lined by the stumps of trees cut down during the war. Scenes like this are unchanging and final. When Harry Lime suddenly appears on the second story of a bombed-out building, standing in a shroud of a black overcoat, robed and stiff like the ragged statue propped beneath him to the left, he is more than a clue or an answer in a mystery--he is what crawls out from under the rock when the world is destroyed. This is the kind of moment that makes The Third...
...Private Secretary William Molloy. "At some point," speculated another colleague, "he may have crossed somebody's path and they did him in." That possibility gained credence when Miami police found traces of blood and hair, along with a recent imprint of a body, inside a 300-lb. "concrete overcoat" of the type used by the Mafia for burials at sea. Unfortunately for investigators, the body inside the casement was missing, and the Florida police declared that there was as yet no reason to connect the two cases. One other puzzling fact: Stone-house's wife, who has stuck...
...first arrest for obscenity came in San Francisco for using a ten letter word onstage. Lenny was acquitted, but soon he was being arrested in so many towns that he wore an overcoat while doing his act. After all, as Lenny put it, if they arrest you in town A and then in town B, by the time you get to town C they got to arrest you or everyone will wonder, "What kind of shit town are they running...
...have been worth it if I had gotten away. It had 60 grand in it." He pulled on his shirt and shoes and grabbed his overcoat...