Word: fedoras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Louis Courtleigh, 61, actor (Fedora, Electro., Tiger Rose, L'Aiglon, The Ninth Guest), onetime (1913-17) Shepherd of The Lambs (Manhattan theatrical club); of acute in digestion...
...aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the presidential salute of 21 guns per ship plus the "Star-Spangled Banner" by each ship's band, came muffled from a mile away downwind. Alert at first, then seemingly lost in thought, the central figure stood with his fedora hat on during most of the spectacle. He did not reply when white-whiskered old Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, soon-retiring Chief of Naval Operations,* ejaculated as the dreadnaughts passed: "I tell you those ships are the backbone of the Fleet...
...golf clubs, but I am no Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that the motto of the American delegation is Faith, Hope and Parity?" As the top-hatted, frock-coated delegation was met by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes in a grey fedora and lounge suit, the inevitable cockney voice that seems to exist in every English crowd boomed, "Ow! Pipe th' disarmin' blokes...
Manhattan's Henry Fairfield Osborn gave his crushed fedora hat and fur-lined overcoat (it has fancy buttons) to the cloakroom attendant and strolled to the speakers' platform, where he presided as retiring president. (California Tech's Robert Andrews Millikan is the incoming president.) His speech tended to show that man and monkeys are descended from so remote an ancestor that they should not be considered related...