Word: raincoat
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...menacingly a black, evil-eyed eagle. The bird was labeled "Trusts"; the Red politicos claimed that any resemblance to the American eagle was purely coincidental. Last week, after scrutinizing a row of garish, importunate posters of several parties at the Porte de St. Cloud, a man in a flimsy raincoat spat eloquently, "Ça me dégoûte" (That burns me up), he said...
...Fillers. Weather-house sales are sure to drop this year. But bright, mild-mannered Bob Kahn, 38, has some items to fill the gap. One of them is a gas-station model from which an attendant emerges in a uniform or in a raincoat, depending on the weather; another is a combination clock-thermometer-barometer...
...Exeter's big game with Andover last week, the score was 2 to 2 in the ninth, when a storm broke. The last person to leave the Exeter stand, looking mightily disappointed at the tie score, was a man in a battered brown hat and a black Navy raincoat. He was Exeter's new principal, William Gurdon Saltonstall...
...Bells of St. James's. Richmond's lawns were greening when he arrived in Virginia next day by train. There was a cold drizzle. Winston Churchill pulled a short raincoat over his striped trousers and black coat and got into an open car, gripping a gold-headed cane, puffing a cigar, grinning at the crowds from under his black Homburg. He raised his hand in the familiar V-sign. His old friend Ike Eisenhower was with him. As their car swished along the wet streets, the bells of St. James's Church pealed out God Save...
...London Evening News quoted the retiring Quartermaster General's delight at the civilian kit issued him on demobilization-"a suit, a raincoat, two shirts, one pair of socks, two collars, a tie and a pair of shoes." In clothes-short Britain, such an outfit would take more than a year's ration points. When hundreds of other ex-soldiers angrily asked why General Riddell-Webster got two shirts, the British War Office called it "a packing error" and sent an officer to retrieve the second shirt...