Word: tailcoated
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...womenfolks, commandeering their lives. Shallow, placid Mrs. Campion let the estate leak through her plump fingers. A carefully washed and brushed Mr. Lacey sought to be her second husband, and would have been but that Victor had a nightmare of Mr. Lacey as a catfish in a tailcoat and wailed until Mamma promised not to let him be "Victor's dear new Papa...
Dressed in a tailcoat and silk hat (the first time he had worn a silk hat on the trip) the President went ashore with Mrs. Harding, as a land battery fired another salute. Awaiting him were James H. King, Canadian Minister of Public Works; John Oliver, Prime Minister of British Columbia, and Mayor Charles Tiedall of Vancouver. Entering motor cars, the party drove through streets lined with cheering crowds and decorated with bunting and innumerable Canadian and American flags...