Word: doff
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...Baptist Meeting House, midway down the Hill, they will doff mortar boards and one of the men will relinquish the truncheon of his authority. The other will catch it up. And so will pass a famed figure in U. S. educational circles ? Doctor William Herbert Perry Faunce, president of Brown University...
...that he take a walk around the Beecher statue in Brooklyn, and note that on the pedestal is the figure of a Negro girl raising a branch of palm to show the gratitude of her race. And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose...
Impudent, a Communist mail carrier did not doff his cap one morning last week in the presence of the Herr Direktor of the Vienna Post Office. Irate, the Herr Direktor bellowed, gave this minion a thoroughgoing rebuke...
...approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty death-charge, to strike home lightning-wise between the shoulders, step aside, doff the hat and pose for plaudits...
...hats on, as they invariably do in European galleries. We want to get them to show less respect for art and more understanding and liking for it." Whether this apparently trivial act will reform the American attitude is much to be doubted. But as William Penn's refusal to doff his beaver before His Majesty's judges testified to his intellectual freedom, so may the emancipated American of the future stand unawed--and hatted before a Titian...