Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were three significant men at the fight: Jack Dempsey, 33, who climbed into the ring before the fight, waved a straw hat, shook several hands, evoked the loudest cheer of the evening and such remarks as: "There's a real guy, a colorful guy, for yuh." James Joseph Tunney, 30, pundit, who again demonstrated that the public can be damned, that he is the cleverest heavyweight boxer since "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, that he also has a punch which might well dispute Dempsey's reputation as peerless killer. Henry Ford, 65, who had a good time and whom...
...juillet (Breeches of July) much resembling the "shorts" already worn by smart U. S. males-as nether underwear. With the culottes is worn a waspish waisted jacket. Formal evening attire of quite similar cut was presented at Deauville in sheer green or violet silk, topped with a silk hat of matching hue, and completed by a nuvelle chemise-d'habille (new dress shirt)-soft,-collarless, and deeply "V" cut to display virile hirsute chests...
Nominee Hoover appeared several times on the back platform and, as an ardent Republican correspondent said, "waved his appreciation with hand and hat. Speak he would not. At Crestline, Ohio, someone cried: "At least you can tell us what you had for breakfast!" The Nominee laughed and mumbled something about "a good Ohio breakfast...
...widespread illiteracy of our population," he said shrewdly, "will make it far easier to introduce a new alphabet in Turkey than in a country where many people already know their letters. . . . Millions of Turks have abandoned the fez for the hat. . . . Thousands will find it even easier to adopt a new alphabet . . . [which] the millions will learn as their first...
...Republicans and Democrats, at least into Hoover voters and Smith voters. In many an instance the final determination of the individual to vote for Hoover or for Smith will not occur until November. A pretty girl at the polling booth, or an ugly man, or a hangover, a new hat, a spun coin, will be the deciding factor...