Word: overcoats
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...point of slouchiness, conspicuously lacks the ramrod posture of the German soldier or the U.S. Marine. But the equipment the U.S. soldier slouches in is, according to the U.S. Army, the best in the world. To outfit and maintain a U.S. soldier, from toilet kit (63?) to overcoat ($12.54), and buy his organizational equipment, from shovels (68?) to hymnals for the chapels ($33.75 a set), costs $262.35 a year. Complete with Garand ($96), the Army rifleman's equipment (including maintenance but not ammunition) sets the U.S. Treasury back $258.35 a year. Average annual civilian expenditure on clothes (estimated...
...been decided that the college dress shall remain unaltered except that any kind of grey trousers may be worn with tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, grey flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess. The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without [ration] coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes...
Worse than the police was the cold prison. Young had nothing to sit down on but the damp cell floor. At last Ambassador Grew sent Young his sealskin-lined overcoat. Grew is over six feet tall; Young, much shorter. When Young turned up the coat collar, he was covered from head to foot. Young soon discovered that the Ambassador's coat gave him a certain diplomatic immunity. "As long as I had it on, the police would recognize it as Ambassador Crew's property. Removed, I was just another reporter." Young never took it off, wore it even...
...everything to learn. He learned fast: to live as though he were never going back; to exploit every opportunity ; to pick a lock; to quiet watchdogs; to box; to speak French. He learned also that prison clothes save wear & tear on your own; that a good-looking overcoat, though it puts off benefactors, also puts off police; that trickery, to succeed, must be simple; that the safest places for exiles are churches, museums and police stations; that an exile has three wars to fight, for food, for shelter, and against idle time; that the subtlest of his enemies is time...
...left Popular Democratic Party Senators without a quorum. Muñoz Marin staggered from his sickbed to the Senate chamber. Doors and windows were closed to protect him from pneumonia. The crowded galleries set up a cheer. Muñoz Marin could not take the chair, sat wearing an overcoat and muffler, stifling his coughing in a handkerchief. The hall grew silent. With great difficulty, an expression of profound sadness on his features, he began: "Nothing, nothing, nothing can paralyze the Populares' task. I will be here while I have an ounce of energy. . . ." He said that...