Word: overcoats
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...worry of Washington; ahead of him, fun with friends off Florida. For a stag party he had brought along only Gus Gennerich, his bodyguard, three secret service men and his Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. At the station were his son James and Jacksonville's Mayor Alsop. Buttoning his overcoat against the breeze the President got into an automobile with Florida's plump Governor Sholtz and drove five miles to the docks on the St. Johns River. There lay Vincent Astor's white and orange Nourmahal. At the foot of the gangplank Owner Astor met him, grasped his hand...
...against the grey sky. Every regiment was represented by a squad of nine men, marching abreast, the colonel at one end, a private at the other. King Albert's coffin, draped in the national flag, rode on a gun carriage. His trench helmet, wreathed in laurel, his military overcoat and his sword were laid on top. Behind the caisson was led his charger, Titanic, a huge bay with white feet. The King's boots were reversed in the stirrups...
...Representatives, was made Sergeant at Arms of the Senate last year, dropped his other duties and sallied forth from the Senate accompanied by J. Mark Trice, Deputy Sergeant at Arms and official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William P. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate." A few minutes later in an office in the National Press Building...
...come to France to obtain material for a cook book. Windfall folk had not appreciated his cornpone-and-potlikker, so he had come to France to obtain material for a cook book. But there was a certain Mme. Gauthier who claimed that he had taken her husband's overcoat in a restaurant. Quite willing to prove that there must be a mistake, Henry Jones started to accompany Mme. Gauthier to the restaurant in order that he might assure her that he had not been in the establishment when her husband had lost his coat. A typical hot-headed Parisian woman...
...left the stage. But not little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string of pearls from the Orchestra Association. Backstage Conductor Molinari snatched up his hat and overcoat, started for the door muttering: "It's an insult to the orchestra, the most confounded impertinence I ever heard of." It took great diplomacy to make him come back, finish the concert...