Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jovial good fellow in any other atmosphere, I thought. And keen! Startling questions popped out of his mouth, several times leaving me gasping weakly like a fish and chasing my poor brains in a jog-trot down a dusty, cloudy track. He had me in front of him,. hat in hand, at attention with a confounded stenographer peering at my face with the watchfulness of a setter dog whenever my answers were slow in issuing. I wish I had a transcript of the testimony, for when I emerged I found I couldn't recall a third of other argument...
...coupled with fluent command of French and German, was chosen to aid the U.S. camouflage corps. He was instrumental in building up this new and important corps of the Army, showing great ability as an organizer and leader. In France he was known to his, men as " Silk Hat Harry"?a name gleaned from his own phraseology in describing the effect of walking across grass as similar to that acquired in brushing a silk hat. During the German drive on Paris in the early part of June, 1918, when the Second Division was thrown in the breach, every available...
...some indulgent genie could wipe the first inning off yesterday's slate, Bowdoin would have to its credit a victory over Harvard, and moundsman Robinson might have his hat in the baseball Hall of Fame reserved for pitchers of no-hit games. For the last eight innings the Bowdoin twirler had the Crimson eating out of his hand hitless and well nigh runless; but since he had no magic lamp to rub, the first inning must stand, leaving Harvard a 6 to 3 victor and Robinson not an immortal, but only a defeated pitcher...
...Balieff takes that step half a hundred times in the course of a single evening of the Chauve-Souris' program of jumbled beauty and absurdity. That is perhaps its greatest merit. Either sublimity or absurdity by itself soon tends to become tiresome. The endless foolery of a straw-hat comedian soon grows dreary. The lengthy sublimity of a five-hour opera by Wagner is almost as boring. But in the Chauve-Souris the clowns are artists, and the artists are not obove clowning. The result is an entertainment which is exhilirating, stimulating, never wearisome...
...silk hat shining, a collar of some-what exaggerated height, a cutaway coat tightly buttoned...