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Word: hat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When asked about the comparative facilities of the two universities, he replied. "My heart leaped with joy when I saw Widener Library, if knocks any-think we have into a cocked hat. Your Fogg Art Museum is also very good, but I do rather miss the concerts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAUD DESCANTS ON HARVARD AND U. S. | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

...huge. Typical of him is the fact that when he first asked Mr. Hearst for the American Weekly advertising job he pulled out a fist-full of advertising contracts already signed and at a higher rate. He got the job. He is also the man who nourished the straw hat industry. He suggested (and carried on a campaign through the Hearst papers) that men begin wearing straw hats 15 days earlier in the season. So successful was he that the present U. S. consumption of straw hats per year per adult male is two, as compared with the pre-Kobler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Kobler's Dreams | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...Westminster Cathedral last week went 6,000 people to do honor to Francis, Cardinal Bourne, famed priest. For 25 of his 67 years he has been Archbishop of Westminster. He came to the archbishopric when the cathedral was but a shell, developed it; lived to receive the red hat from Pope Pius X (1911). Last week he celebrated pontifical mass for his silver milestone as archbishop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1928 | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...hat which grandpa wore when he was in college .... coat and pants (not trousers) which do not match.... all pockets bulging.... no vest.... striped tie with one half as like as not over a shoulder.... deceased crease in buckle...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: What The Freshman is Wearing The Smooth Lad. | 9/22/1928 | See Source »

...physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home Economics after leaving, office and until exposed. She went to prison in a trim navy-blue dress and tan felt hat, matronly, greyhaired, self-possessed, "disgraced," "ruined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disgrace, Ruin | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

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