Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conduct of its chief tycoon typifies the Islands' democracy. When he goes into a Honolulu shop to buy a new hat, the clerk calls him "Walter." Old native-women selling Lei at the steamers josh with him in Hawaiian. When an enterprising young Jew sought to marry the daughter of a potent Gentile ship-operator, the girl's father, distressed, went to 'Walter' for help, advice. Said Mr. Dillingham: "Go on and let her marry him. She could do a whole lot worse...
...Ambassador Dawes was again the target of every glance at Oxford's musty Sheldonian Theatre. In a black velvet hat and the scarlet gown and hood of a Doctor of Civil Law, he sat on the platform while the Public Orator of Oxford University, Dr. Arthur Blackburne Poynton, presented him as a "Missionary of peace and harmony among Nations...
...editorial writer at $75 a week, a princely income at the turn of the century. But he quit Collier's and came back to The Herald at $18 a week on a hunch. Soon after that The Herald, in new hands, was shy an editor. Vandenberg hung up his hat in the editor's office, brushed his cigar ashes in the editor's tray and announced himself as the new boss. The owner let him stay as a penalty for his impertinence; but in about three jerks of a lamb's tail he had the weakling Herald on a money...
Tribute to Senator Warren's years was paid by Tennessee's Democratic Senator McKellar who wished him many happy returns of the day, recited his venerable record and said: "I take off my hat to him . . . make my bow in admiration of him . . . congratulate him on his clean and splendid life...
...private table in the "yard." Following the precedent established when he recently arrived on the Mauretania (TIME, June 17) he made no objections to newsphotographers. One camera caught him munching a bun. Banker Morgan, eschewing academic robes or class reunion costume, wore a black cutaway, grey trousers, panama hat. He left early to board his huge black yacht, the Corsair, to go and inspect his new 343-foot yacht, abuilding at Bath, Maine...