Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American police methods. M. Daudet would most certainly have been sworn at; he might very readily have been hit over the head. It is even possible that he would have had to pay his call to the Prefect in a patrol wagon. Had he waited to angle his silk hat properly, it is even conceivable that he would have been hit with a pistol butt. Third degree methods might have been applied should M. Daudet have continued his propaganda at the station in favor of a monarchy. Most certainly his siege would have been enlivened with tear gas, riot guns...
This is "Joseph" ; urbane, silver-haired, well known to most U. S. visitors in London, whose photographic memory has puzzled many. He has not given a check for a hat or coat for the last 20 years, he never forgets a face; and the now famous coat which was so nearly stolen has been under his care on more than one occasion. (It was not, as it happens, a particularly new coat.) Hence his feelings at your paragraph. But Joseph is as shy as his memory is razor-keen, and on his behalf I venture, therefore, to exonerate him from...
...throng burst into "The International," as Laborite George Lansbury, M. P., beat time jovially with his large bowler hat. With him stood the sole British Communist M. P., Shapurji Saklatvala, carrying a large bouquet of red roses for Mme. Rosengolz...
...Stove pipe committee"?conductors in conversation (cf. Tweedledee & Tweedledum above). In the eyes of some porters, some conductors are "pretty high-hat," toplofty, consciously superior...
...well be asked, with all these far-reaching agencies right under his nose cannot the young journalist gain a first hand and accurate conception of politics which will be invaluable to him when he throws his own hat in the political ring? Unfortunately this young journalist will find no "open sesame...