Word: topcoat
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...morning classes to find the hall door wide open. It had been left unlocked. On entering the room, he noticed that his bureau drawers had been opened and that two new shirts and a new sweater had been removed. His roommates checked and reported that they were missing a topcoat, three sweaters, a sports coat, a pair of slack, and possibly some shirts...
...courtly old man, swaddled in topcoat and business suit against the late summer chill, walked into Boisvert's Barbershop on Cottage Street in the resort town of Bar Harbor, Me., trailed by his chauffeur. He had not phoned ahead for an appointment; nor had he, like many of the wealthy summer residents of Mount Desert* Island, sent the chauffeur down after working hours to bring one of the barbers back to his mansion. "Mr. Rockefeller," Barber Jim Corbett likes to tell his friends "just comes on in and takes his chances...
This time John Davison Rockefeller Jr. did not have to wait. He doffed his topcoat, jacket and vest, hung them on a hook on the wall facing the mirrors and four chairs, shouldered into a sweater held out by his chauffeur and sat down in Jim Corbett's chair. "Would you please close the door?" he asked. Rockefeller, who will be 83 years old next January, is troubled by drafts. He leaned back in the chair, a smock draped about his stocky frame, for the usual haircut and shampoo. Then he began to ply the barber with questions...
...thinning white hair trimmed, shampooed and carefully dried, Rockefeller handed Corbett $5 for the $2.50 job, donned his vest, jacket and topcoat and headed off to the next point on his morning's itinerary. "Goodbye, Mr. Rockefeller,"said the barber. "Goodbye, Mr. Corbett," said the man who is known to his friends and associates (but not to his face) as J.D.R...
Connelly and Caudle were accused of accepting gifts in return for their help in trying to head off the trial of St. Louis Shoe Broker Irving Sachs, who later pleaded guilty to income-tax evasion and was fined $40,000. What the jury decided Connelly got: a topcoat, two suits of clothes and an oil royalty worth $3,600 (Connelly said he had put up $750 for the royalty and did not know it had cost more). What the jury decided Caudle got: an oil royalty worth $3,300 (Caudle said he had angrily ordered Sachs's agent...