Word: doffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monroe. Soprano Monroe, who used to sing accurately and unspectacularly in musicomedy, radio and the Metropolitan Opera (when it had a second-string spring season), got in the patriotic groove when she let loose the national anthem before the 1937 American Legion convention. Now she sings it at the doff of a hat. She believes that every office and factory worker should be made to start the day right by listening...
...Cabinet, last week forced his ministers to hand in their portfolios. By week's end their crablike progress had brought them to their goal. Ortiz handed over to Castillo authority to select a new Cabinet, which he promptly filled with six conservatives and only one nonconservative, a doff of the hat to the President...