Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard students continue to wear felt hats in the middle of June? Straw hats, the dealers say, have been the genteel headgear for men for nearly a month, yet statistics compiled by a CRIMSON reporter late yesterday afternoon showed three out of ten Harvard men wear straws...
Standing in front of Leavitt and Peirce's for half an hour, the reporter obtained the following statistics: felt hats 109, straw hats 79, no hats 28, caps 24. There was also one postman in uniform. The weather was warm and sunny...
...them with a few deft fencing movements of his cane. Then, after everyone had trooped into the Reichstag Chamber, Herr Bock, aged 78, oldest Reichstag member, rang a bell to signify that the second Reichstag of the German Republic was in session for the first time. The Communists evidently felt that this was a signal for celebration, for they broke into a series of discordant yells and ear-splitting howls, which they mellowed by clanking cow bells and blowing whistles. The remaining members of the Reichstag did not help matters by hissing and roaring long and loud, "Throw them...
...Tirpitz!" The Communists felt bound to show him nautical honors. As one man they rose and focussed a common hiss upon the chin foliage of the Grand Admiral, allegedly in imitation of a sea breeze. But the Grand Admiral was not moved...
...lose ?'" François Descamps. Carpentier's manager, corroborated this. "After 16 years he looks better than he ever looked before. And I mean that from my heart." Gibbons also felt satisfied with his training. "That I shall remove Georges Carpentier, the French heavyweight, from my path to another meeting with Dempsey, is my firm belief." When the boxers entered the ring they were all smiles. Carp smiled his customary gracious smile; and Gibbons smiled his good-natured smile. At the end of the bout Gibbons was still smiling his good-natured smile. Carp however, was not smiling...