Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third night, the circle had assembled before the host appeared. He carried three boxes of cigars and had them passed around. Suddenly he left the room, returning with a ten-gallon hat on his head...
...gentleman from Texas," he cried and pretended to throw a lariat, to shoot-from-the-hip. He took off the hat, saying: "A little heavy for the climate." He sat down, stretched, yawned, listened to the reading of the Democratic platform. Someone on the convention dais could be heard asking for a glass
...been in Hugo, Tex., for a while, he played in a professional game for which he was paid $2.50. Then he played more for Hugo and was paid a little more and then he moved on to a town called Dennison. One afternoon a stranger in a tan felt hat watched him from the little stand beside the bleached, hot field. The stranger was Con- nery, scout for the St. Louis Cardinals; oilers had told Connery that there was a good player in Dennison. Connery paid $500 for Hornsby's release and handed him a ticket to St. Louis...
...screening the river from a lake which it entered. Across the lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching trout come to the surface to snatch morsels of liver, their semiweekly rations. The surface of the lake was grey, desolate, broken. It was still raining...
...days after Capone's arrival in Miami, a man standing at the window of an apartment on Chicago's upper West Side, put his hand to his hat and tilted it. Two figures loitering on a porch across the street immediately began firing with repeating shotguns at two men who had emerged from a fish shop and were entering a parked automobile. The targets died at once, torn and streaming with slug wounds. They were identified as John ("Bowlegs") Oliveri and Joseph Salamone, familiar to the police as members of the local alcohol "racket." Oliveri had lately joined...