41.   The next year, however, my grandfather bought his wife a mink coat.

42.   The rococo facade of the GUM department store resembles that of a cathedral, but its gaudy interior is an emporium with mink coats on hangers and on customers.

43.   The wife is all decked out with a full-length mink coat and the child is dressed in beautiful silk.

44.   The two Akron men testified this man was dressed in black, although Gwen said he wore a leather jacket and Shinholster said he wore a mink coat.

45.   Then, on her way to a meeting of the country club set, she would change in the car, putting on a mink coat and stylish shoes.

46.   They wore full-length mink coats and high school letter jackets and ski parkas and mittens and fur caps and cowboy hats and wool scarves.

47.   Three weeks later, Irvin showed up for grand-jury proceedings in a full-length black mink coat and sunglasses.

48.   Thursday night found her wearing a bugle-beaded red cocktail dress under a mink coat to the drag club Lips on Bank Street in the Village.

49.   To further confuse jurors, Richard Lollar, the other man stabbed to death that night, had a hair from a mink coat in his hand.

50.   Twenty years ago, you could buy a concrete mixer or a pneumatic drill, a mink coat or a racing bicycle.