Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elephant; mammal or fish? President Coolidge said he did not know and when John Ringling, who was in Washington with his circus, called at the White House and said his sea elephant weighed four tons. President Coolidge went to see for himself. Mrs. Coolidge, in summery white hat, suit and gloves, went too. They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show...
Within five minutes the pandemonium was such that a disgusted Briton in the gallery hurled his hat down upon the floor of the House, exclaiming: "Shut up, you bloody fools!" Oddly enough, this quieted the tumult; but as it subsided crippled Philip Snowden grinned upon Expert Samuel, and remarked: "I do not envy the Financial Secretary when he meets the convalescent Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Reception. To welcome and impress the Afghan Potentate, when his train chuffed into Moscow last week, there stepped forward a scrubby-bearded one-time peasant, clad in a plain dark overcoat topped by a soft felt hat. This was Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, beloved President of the Soviet Union.* The effect of his sombre simple garb upon King Amanullah, who for four months has been feted by Presidents in sleek tail coats and Monarchs attired as field marshals, must indeed have been impressive. Darting a quick glance about the station, His Majesty saw not a single silk hat or full dress...
...approaching evening cast lengthened palls upon the greensward of the Palmer Stadium, the presses of the great metropolitan dailies will already be pounding out, over and over again, the name of the Hero. Unnoticed in the crowd that rushes for the railroad station, unnoticeable, except that perhaps his felt hat is a little twisted by fingers that itched for the rough surface of a ball, will return the scrub. He has made no sensational tackle beneath the very gallows shadow of the goalpost, he has run back no punts through the very heart of the enemy, he has not heard...
...Rollin Kirby, acute cartoonist of the astute New York World, drew a picture of the Primary School, a one-room structure flying the U. S. flag. Out into the road, in sailor hat, buster brown collar, short trousers and socks, came a fattish cherub waving his report card at an old gentleman labelled G. 0. P. The cartoon was entitled: "Look, Daddy!" The cherub was labelled Hoover. The report card said...