Word: topcoats
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Clad in a blue topcoat and a black Homburg hat and carrying a horn-rimmed monocle and a gleaming Malacca stick, Captain Cullen sniffed and snorted: "This talk about insolent stewards is just a lot of g- -d hooey and lies. Why, there was not a steward logged [fined] except a couple for getting drunk. And I'd log 'em if there were any reason...
Designing new costumes for himself is the delight of beefy Prussian Premier Captain Hermann Wilhelm Göring. The points of his brownshirt collar (and of his alone) are scarlet. As German Air Minister he affects a topcoat with unique and striking white lapels. He delights in the clucks and murmurs of the masses when he appears in a rakish wild-leder (doeskin) cloak, fastened at the neck with a single clasp. Last week he set the fashion in which Germans condemned to Death will be executed...
...them. Last Thursday between the hours of 9 A. M. and 1 P. M. the shatter-proof glass on my car was broken and an attempt was made to steal the car. Although the thief was unable to move the machine he did succeed in stealing a brand new topcoat that I had locked up in my sedan before going to my first class of the morning. I am sending this letter to the CRIMSON in the hope that Editor will warn the students to refrain from leaving valuables in parked automobiles. Yours, very truly, Charles Elliot Draper...
Undergraduate squash players are now on the path towards the creation of the "Harvard topcoat" following the model of the "Harvard hat." While one carelessly throws down his hat in the dirt with the air of one authorized by tradition, he hesitates to deposit his overcoat with equal complacence upon the well-oiled floors of the University squash courts. Indeed, a hat in the last stages of dilapidation can be explained away as due to "indifference", but it is difficult with equal propriety to dismiss a soiled and much trampled-over topcoat as caused by a similar disregard for convention...
After an absence of 69 years, Jefferson Davis was last week ready to re-enter the U. S. Capitol as a representative of Mississippi. In heroic bronze he will take his place in Statuary Hall. Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman has finished the figure-erect, head high, eyes front, topcoat flowing from his shoulders, a pair of eyeglasses held loosely in his right hand-the President of the Confederacy entering an important situation with none of the air of a Lost Cause...