Word: raincoats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before. But for once the Queen Mary's well-disciplined crew paid no heed to their commander's orders. In a strike meeting in a drafty wharfside shed, they were listening instead to the passionate oratory of a thin, febrile man in a cheap blue raincoat and a dirty white shirt...
Reversible. In Birmingham, England, Ernest Abrahams sold his raincoat to an acquaintance, stole it back, sold it to a secondhand-clothes dealer, stole it a second time, finally settled with a judge for a ?2 ($8) fine...
...pace. Some times he shook a finger at the audience, again he stood arms akimbo and bit off his words. The fascinated audience laughed with him, grew serious with him, sympathized with him when he said he had just come from a sickbed and had to wear a light raincoat (which he took off after half an hour...
...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...