Word: raincoat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sing Sing convict, disguised in a keeper's raincoat, drove away with five convict-comrades in a motor truck...
...fourth round where she played a tired little woman by the name of Wragg who came out on the first tee wearing hornrimmed spectacles, a leather jacket with a sweater under it, woolen stockings, thick shoes, and woolen gloves. Miss Collett, always natty, had on a thin blue raincoat. Warm and ugly, Miss Wragg kept her ball in the middle of the course. Miss Collett stopped before each shot to warm her fingers with her breath. "How do you feel?" asked a friend. "Rotten" answered Miss Collett. Miss Wragg...
That every member should bring with him a warm overcoat, a steamer rug, an umbrella or preferably a raincoat, and rubbers; that while the days may be warm the nights will be chilly in Jerusalem, and that there are no heating facilities in the special dormitories...
Rain turned the red Georgia earth to clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench...
...Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital operating room last week, one Dr. John Miller was performing a delicate operation on a patient's throat. Surgeon, assistants and nurses were wrapped in sterile linens. Suddenly, into the humid room, sidled one Leo Goldstein, process server, wearing a surgically filthy raincoat. "Scat!" cried a nurse...