Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seating at banquet was by numbers drawn from a hat. Chance arranged that the Prince of Wales should sit between Sergeant William F. Burman, now a chauffeur, who won his cross for silencing a machine gun singlehanded, and John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, Viscount Gort, acting Colonel of the aristocratic Grenadier Guards...
...Green Hat." Casually up the marble steps which lead to the Senate Office Building walked George Lyons Cassidy one day last week. Under his coat something was hidden. Police stopped him, found a pint of whiskey on him, other bottles...
Quickly followed the identification of Cassidy as the "Man in the Green Hat"? 'legger who long has specialized in trade around the Capitol. Three years ago he was going his rounds in the House Office Building when his liquor-laden brief case fell to the stone floor. Amid fumes of alcohol, he fled to the street. His only identification then was his bright green hat. When arrested last week he wore a hat of sober grey...
...Fauves (Wild Beasts)* and no intelligent young painter could ignore them. Modigliani quickly exhausted his Italian academism, delved into the cubism and Negro sculpture which preoccupied his new friends, Picasso, Matisse, Derain and Braque. He became alcoholic and consumptive, affected voluminous trousers, a gay scarf, a wide-brimmed black hat. He lived in grubby Montparnasse with one Jeanne Hebuterne who bore him a child. He was known as the poorest man in Paris. Meanwhile he painted steadily and achieved a personal style. Most of the 400 canvases he left are portraits...
Created and proclaimed a Cardinal in December 1927, two years had Cardinal Saenz been hatless. According to Spanish tradition, His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII should have conferred the hat, in loco Papae. Instead, Cardinal Saenz had it from the hands of the Holy Father himself...