Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the plaza. Mr. Coolidge went up the broad steps of the Senate wing at a quick, almost jaunty, pace. The Chief was slower, measured his stride more carefully. Once inside Mr. Coolidge walked around to the President's room, just off the Senate lobby, put his silk hat down on the green felt table top, sat down in an arm chair, signed many bills. His Cabinet stood about him, eager to be of last-minute assistance. When he had finished he motioned shut the ponderous doors and lighted a cigar...
Annoyed by noises interfering with a sound-production, one William Seiter, directing Corinne Griffith, tore off his derby hat, spat and stamped on it. He received next day from Miss Griffith a new derby, black, shiny, made...
...pages; ''With a labouring that began stirring in the soles of his feet and worked up with Gargantuan travail through his knees and weighty abdomen to his heaving breast and strangled column of a throat. . . he spoke." The day she met him she was wearing a hat with a cluster of small white lovebirds in front. "He gasped with horror, pointed his finger, and said with utter kindness. 'My child, my very dear child-the cruelty-ah! the cruelty of your hat! That once living-indeed yes, loving-creatures should have been so cruelly separated by death...
...Irene Castle McLaughlin wore a frock of jade green crepe and a small hat of absinthe felt. Herbert Bayard Swope, who indorsed Lucky Strikes, looked overheated George Palmer Putnam, who publicizes, was there. Walter P. Chrysler, motorist, alternately scowled and grinned...
...which he and seven other Cambridge undergraduates were preparing to row, next week, against Oxford. He, the stroke, was stricken with mortification and dismay. Sticking your foot through the shell at rowing is equivalent to trampling a hound in a hunt or blowing off your neighbor's hat at a grouse shoot. Fortunately for Cambridge, a new shell had already been ordered. When a shell was damaged in 1906 just before Cambridge's race with (and victory over) Harvard, a new shell had to be built in four days...