Word: boater
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Were aghast when, for the first time in living memory, an M. P. entered their House wearing a straw hat. Promptly the innovator, Major James Archibald St. George Fitzwarenne Despencer-Robertson, M. P. (Conservative), was suspected of conspiring to help the Princess Royal win her ?25 "boater bet" from her brother the Prince of Wales...
...According to Court rumor, Princess Alary recently argued that, despite Edward of Wales' failure to revive the fashion for straw "boaters" by wearing them in South America, he could still bring the boater back by wearing it persistently in England. This His Royal Highness is now doing (TIME, July 4), but is understood to have bet Her Royal Highness that the style cannot be revived, even by himself. As is usual when bets are made in the Royal Family, the ?25 is to go to charity. Settlement is supposed to be made at the close of this year...
Edward of Wales alighted last week at Cambridge aerodrome in his usual high spirits. "Where's my hat gone?" he shrilled as dignitaries carrying high silk hats and led by the Earl Marshal advanced respectfully. Fishing up a battered straw "boater" from the bottom of the plane, H. R. H. climbed out, clapped the boater momentarily upon the head of the Earl Marshal, giggled...
Later, driving through Cambridge with his high-hatted entourage, Edward of Wales espied a man in a boater as battered as his own, waved his bedraggled straw. London tailors called the boater escapade last week the worst sartorial atrocity committed by H. R. H. since last month, when he turned up in a sleek cutaway coat and rough tweed trousers to pin medals on some London policemen...
...Wood, power-boater, said he had ordered a $175,000 aerial yacht, to be built by Dornier. It will have a 24-passenger capacity, with staterooms, shower baths, an electric refrigerator...