Word: bareheadedness
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President Roosevelt boomed out a big laugh, hoisted himself out of his chair. Thus omitted was the formal top-hatted delegation which a more conventional Administration would have expected Congress to have sent down Pennsylvania Avenue to say the same thing that Leader Robinson had made a joke of. His...
Adolf Hitler, with a fine instinct for an "incident," last week hastened to Nuremberg with Colonel-General Werner von Blomberg, his Minister of Defense, and General Kurt von Hammerstein, Commander of the Reichswehr. He ordered a state funeral for Private Schumacher. Bareheaded, he led the parade. He delivered the funeral...
In great flakes Moscow's first heavy snow of the season was softly falling. Red Army divisions, snug in their ankle-length winter overcoats and turnip helmets, filled the vast Red Square. All Moscow turned out to see who would bear the ashes of Comrade Katayama to their niche...
Ignoring precedent, a spectator in the gallery when the House convened was Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, bareheaded, knitting a sweater. When members spotted the First Lady, they rose and clapped. Mrs. Roosevelt responded by standing, nodding, smiling pleasantly, and like Mme Defarge in the French Revolution resuming her knitting. With...
In 1925 they put a rope round her neck and hauled her down to make room for the New York Life Insurance Building, while a group of mourners including Elder Statesman Elihu Root and the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard stood bareheaded in the rain. Sentimentalists were comforted by an...