Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Preakness, was there and so was Publisher Paul Block, who arrived in a private car. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer went in an airplane and was greeted by Brother-Publisher Ralph Pulitzer. "Bath House" John Coughlin, owner of Karl Eitel who did not place, wore an apple-blossom shirt, necktie, hat band. Herbert Bayard Swope, just returned from England, got his red hair wet and Commander Paul V. McNutt of the American Legion had the crease rained out of his trousers. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt did not seem to mind when her Chicatie came in last. She still felt Chicatie...
...smart official and diplomatic life, has not been seen frequently enough concluding statesman-like negotiations for his government. Tall, distinguished, invariably well-groomed and polished, the Belgian diplomat is nevertheless regarded by some of the leaders of his government as what might be termed in America 'high hat...
Doff your hat and bow respectfully to every woman?lady or peasant?who appears to be approaching motherhood. The theory of such courteous obseisance to Life is similar to that which prompts gentlemen to uncover when Death passes in a hearse...
...paradoxical combination of freedom and affection. But Gregory nobly yearns for the stabilizing responsibilities of true matrimony. Therefore he announces his forthcoming marriage to a fictitious woman. Mollie is shocked, furious, broken. But while the chimes are ringing for Gregory's marriage he appears in a top hat, gaily tells Mollie of his ruse and whisks her to the altar...
...Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania have accepted places has caused some comment on the independent attitude always maintained by Harvard toward associations in intercollegiate sport. Perhaps the commonest interpretation put on this detachment has read into the Harvard athletic policy a disdain of such leagues. "Old high-hat Harvard" is the phrase most often used to describe what is felt to be an independence amounting to conscious self-righteousness...