Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisville was soggy with rain when the Greenbrier docked there at dusk. Soggy too were the President's silk hat, his dress coat. Sportingly he remarked: "If I'm going to leave a trail of pneumonia behind me in the middle west, I at least ought to go along the trail myself...
...being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just how to handle the Sherlockian pipe, as crooked and heavy as a revolver...
When in 1914 Tom Mercer Girdler went to work for the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. he had reason to be pleased. For famed in Pittsburgh are the Joneses and the Laughlins, controlling the greatest "family" steel company. Hard-swearing, wearing his hat at all times to be ready for emergency mill calls, Mr. Girdler in turn pleased the Joneses and the Laughlins. So well did he please them that when last year they heard outside interests, represented by Cleveland's Cyrus Stephen Eaton, were seeking General Manager Girdler, they made him president of Jones & Laughlin...
...would one day be a great one of the Church. The diocese of Burgos, Spain, saw his birth. Burgos saw him consecrated as its Archbishop. But only a secret consistory of his peers in the Vatican last week saw Pope Pius XI confer on Burgos' Archbishop the red hat of the cardinalate, making him the titular priest of Rome's Santa Maria in Trastevere...
Newspapers do not often compliment each other, with or without cause. But last week Variety, Manhattan theatrical weekly, took off its slouch hat to the august New York Times, thus: HONEST TIMES "Col. Charles Lindbergh finally sent the only photographs of himself and bride on their honeymoon to the New York Times for enlargement. They were snapshots and turned out beautiful. "Times offered Lindbergh $1,500 for the set. They'd have made ideal roto 'shots.' Lindbergh declined the offer and asked for a bill for the enlargement, which the Times sent. "If the colonel had sent...