Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...straw-hat case recently investigated by the Commission, the interest of the consumer in getting a lower tariff on hats is limited to the problematic saving of, say, 50? per year, whereas the Baltimore manufacturer with an output of, say, 100,000 straw hats annually is acutely interested in that most vital of human problems-the problem of making a living...
...Canada, England and elsewhere, and with 190 stores owned outright by the Liggett companies. He did not get ahead without setbacks, however. In the panic of 1907 he was hard up, held a cash auction and within an hour had checks and orders for $92,000 in his silk hat. In 1914, again in difficulties, he started his one-cent sale department that now does a business of several million dollars a year. Besides his business ability, his other attainments are attested by an anecdote: At a druggists' convention in St. Louis some years ago, a bout between...
...roughly handled when he attended a miners' fete. Apparently, the miners resented his trying to give both sides to the dispute; for, the moment his presence was noticed, horny hands seized him and raucous voices yelled: "Throw him in the river." The 77-year-old begaitered and silk-hatted gentleman was rushed toward the river. Cooler heads, however, came to his rescue, after which the Bishop merely commented: "I lost my new hat and umbrella...
...first Garden Party, as the tea parties are called, the King wore a gray top hat and a gray morning suit. The Queen wore a mauve dress and hat. At the second Party, an enormous number of men wore gray toppers and morning suits while the women radiated mauve...
...preacher from Georgia in a bungalow on wheels drowsily draws on his outlandish costume-alpaca coat, shabby policeman's trousers and an opera hat- and hopes that the new day may bring him an audience for his weird sermon proving that Negroes are not human beings. The barker for a tent show called The She-Devil clears his throat...