Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week. The Messrs. Nast and Crowninshield were announced as head promoters of a new type of nocturnal resort, frankly modeled after the Embassy Club of London and intended to cultivate that delectable type of night life so familiar to readers of Author Michael Arlen's novel The Green Hat-iridescent conversation, light drinking (presumably, since intoxication was to be frowned upon), the smartest dancing, a maitre d'hotel who would be at once "a master of tact and a genius for cooking." The entire atmosphere of the place would be "gay, spirited, diverting"; above all, "decent." Their club...
...legal adage de minimis non curat lex never fitted U. S. legal proceedings very well, much less U. S. business. Accordingly, the National City Bank of New York has recently undertaken an analysis of the straw-hat business of this country, shortly to come into its liveliest season...
About $30,000,000 is invested in this country in facilities for producing straw hats, out of a total investment in the hat business of about $100,000,000. Some 300 factories in this country make hats, and 96 of them specialize in straws. Annual output is valued at $116,000,000, consisting of $32,500,000 worth of straw hats, $75,000,000 of "fur felt" hats and $8,500,000 of "wool felt" hats...
...straw-hat factories, about half are in New England and the Middle States. From 1904 to 1923, U. S. population increased 33%, but annual value of straw hats produced increased from...
...London papers commended the President for sending his old hat to be re-blocked for Easter. They animadverted upon that glorious Duke of Devonshire who appeared at the smartest spring races year after year in the same hat. He kept his hat for comfort, not economy. Finally, 24 lady friends sent him 24 new hats on the same day. He accepted the gifts, never wore the hats...