Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...talked in his dressing room yesterday afternoon. "However, there are many other factors that help to draw large audiences. For instance it is remarkable what a difference an actor's makeup will create. You, know that negro who sang in the performance last week, with a high silk hat and tramp's clothing? Well, he didn't represent any thing particularly in those clothes, yet he got away big. Now they've been trying to get him to change his costume for two years, and yet they can't find any other clothing in which he'll be a success...
...Bossy" Gillis's feel moved to a more comfortable position on the desk. "My sympathies are always with Yale. You fellows kind of liberated up there in the last 15 years. Before that you were pretty high-hat. . . . . Any man like myself, who hasn't taken a chance to get an education is a damn fool...
Your announcement of new TIME advertisers for 1928 is obviously intended to attract still more advertisers to your sheet. Yet you have the insolence to illustrate this announcement with three thugs in the act of reading TIME. One of them wears an ill-fitting suit, a sloppy hat, and has a cigaret drooping from his mouth. Another has a dented derby pulled down over his face. The third, I must admit, seems to be a rather high-grade thug. Do you think national advertisers will come running to your office, if TIME readers are really as you depict them...
Baiting such Democrats as stayed to hear him, Senator Walsh of well-protected Massachusetts said he was for a "scientific" tariff. Senators Dill and Jones begged protection for the Washington shingle industry. Senator Bruce bumbled about the Baltimore straw hat trade. Small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana and nasal Senator Harrison of Mississippi, wrangled interminably over Republican and Democratic tariff statements and records...
...what remains." After a short peer, Romans delightedly readjusted their impressions. Her Majesty, Queen Badsha of Afghanistan, is a slender, lovely woman with ivory skin, bright dancing eyes, and a quick queenly smile. She wore, last week, a close, black Parisian fur coat, a chic cloche hat. She and her daughters had never before appeared unveiled in public. Brave, they not only laid aside their veils but rose to the occasion with knee-length skirts. "Viva! Viva!," cried gallants...