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Word: hat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clings to the taking of snuff and to wearing his hat when seated in the House of Commons, where he has sat since 1880. The snuff is a whim, but the hat stamps him as the last survivor of those indomitable oppositionists, the Irish Nationalists, once led by the late famed Charles Stewart Parnell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Mar. 5, 1928 | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

When U. S. citizens go to Canada it is usually for primitive reasons-to shoot or fish, to ski or skate, to eat, drink or make honeymoon. Secretary of State Kellogg had out his top hat and went to Canada last week. But his was a highly civilized reason. He went to pay back the ceremonious call which Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King paid the U. S. last autumn (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Affairs of State | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...beneath the white Cenotaph in Whitehall. Last week the unique gun carriage bore not the unknown but the best known British soldier. On the flag which draped the coffin lay Earl Haig's sword, unsheathed, and beside it his Field Marshal's baton and massive white plumed hat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Toward 1940 | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...fever and died. Town officials were informed of his death . . . just another of those hungry-looking musical fellows. . . . They went to his lodgings, pounded on the door, pushed their way in when there was no answer. . . . They made a formal list of his leavings-six pairs of shoes, a hat, thirteen pairs of socks, a shabby suit, a blanket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Centennial | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...opinion of the Illinois Retail Clothiers and Furnishers Association, an organization which can justly afford to be interested in the "college man" inasmuch as it proposes to do something about it. It is prophesied that next spring this problematical personage will array himself in a light gray suit. His hat will be gray: his shoes black. His shirt will be white; his collar soft. His tie will be of a rich cream color. Thus clad he will appear as a figure infinitely more unique than any ordinary individual, for he is in the position of a stranger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE UNKNOWN QUANTITY | 2/9/1928 | See Source »

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