Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington was made gay by 3,000 real estate men who assembled in convention and paraded the streets wearing white flannels and brilliant hat bands inscribed with the names of their home cities. All Washington was placarded with signs of "Welcome Realtors." Not to be outdone, the President welcomed them on the south lawn of the White House and in a short speech declared: "No other business group contributes more effort to establishing full appreciation of the great present and assured future of our country. You are purveyors of cheer, confidence and soundly based optimism...
Once on my day off while standing at the window of my room in a hotel I looked down just in time to see an accident in which several people were killed. I seized my hat and got away from that place as fast as I could. When I returned to the hotel I found that there had been about 20 telephone calls for me from the office. Not for $25 per week do I do extra work to keep the pocket book of W. R. Hearst watered. I've worked for all sorts of outfits and found them about...
Patrons of American theatres have seldom been cursed with the plague of usher-tipping; that particular institution, very fortunately, is wholly French. But there are barbers in America, and hat-check girls, and boot-blacks, and waiters, and a whole host of black-eyed banditti whose entire stock in trade is a hypnotic countenance and an irritated palm. If Mr. Van Dyke can only find the opportunity and the strength of character to extend his magnificent principle to take in all these special cases, his claim to the everlasting gratitude of the down-trodden bourgeois will be assured...
...Then, this evening we came down to the House prepared to hear and cheer all these new developments that are going to hurry up the social millenium, and Mr. Shaw described how the Government had been carrying out our scheme. . . . He lifted a rabbit out of a hat, but it was not his rabbit. The rodent which last December was the most wretched, puny, skin-and-bone creature that ever escaped from a lethal chamber is today lifted from the hat with ostentatious pride and self-satisfaction...
...easy to play then bandit sash and a visor; it is easy to be anarchist when, like Desperate Ambrose you possess a "veadetta hat". But to attend royalty in knee parts and yet remain that is a deferment matter. The had of King George has become indeed the ironical best result of human philosophy...