Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Uneasy lies the head that wears a senatorial top-hat or even a mayor's derby. The politicians that really have fun are the big frogs in small side-puddles. But often the splashing of such frogs becomes notorious and higher authorities investigate. So it was with Maurice E. Connolly, who splashed as President of the Borough of Queens (appendage of New York City) from 1911 until last week. President Connolly's notoriety, like that of many another discredited municipal official, arose from his city's sewers...
...hear what the Mayor of San Francisco said to the Mayor of New York. Mayor-elect Edwards was there to inspect public utilities. Mayor Rolph of San Francisco was there on a holiday, with his high boots tucked under his trousers (as always) and wearing the first straw hat of the season. Just before Mayor-elect Edwards arrived, Mayor James J. Walker left town, as usual to make a speech...
...bartenders, Galapagos tortoises with leathery shells, fish whose pied throats pulsate languidly. Such catch Mr. Vanderbilt carried on his yacht Ara to Miami, Fla., where on an off-shore island he maintains his private aquarium and tropical bird reservation and where, insouciantly clad in bathing suit, slippers and tennis hat he directed the unloading of his craft...
...automobile and hurried over to watch the Lobbyist take off with a fresh load. Smiling like a boy, stepping quickly with excitement, the old gentleman looked as though he wanted to fly too. But he was not asked and it was not until he took off his hat to shake off mud and gravel whirled up by the Lobbyist's propellers, that newsgatherers spotted him as 87-year-old Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. He walked back to his car, where his wife was waiting and exclaimed: "It was thrilling! Simply thrilling...
...Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, heard a motor horn tooting madly for help. Turned over, was a car in a ditch opposite the house and in front of the Englewood High School where Elizabeth Morrow, his hostess, eldest daughter of the Ambassador to Mexico, teaches. Out he went without hat or wrap to help Englewood natives extricate the hapless motorist. That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner...