Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Forbes] illustrated the article with a caricature of Mr. Ford 'shown dressed as a gentleman of 1860 driving a typical vehicle of that period.' The 'Henry Ford' of the picture has a big ear, sidewhiskers, mustache, horseteeth, a head far too large for his high hat, and braided pants." To Mr. Forbes, an apology. - ED. Too Fine Sirs...
Minutes passed. Dessert was passing in under the white mustache. Then suddenly the doorman of the Savoy snapped to attention as Mr. Lloyd George's coat passed over the threshold, a hat jammed down over the collar, two shabby trouser legs oscillating beneath...
...strange figure in Edinburgh streets. A contemporary described him: an abnormally short man, with ponderous arms and legs, a shuffling gait, beaklike nose and chin, "curious cast of the eye," and a perpetual haranguer. He was wont to dress in pantaloons, long, colored coat; wore a stock, a top hat...
...reigning house would be a comparatively simple matter. But it seems that the increase of unconventionality has brought a new set of problems that make that life of a prince a delicate matter. The Prince of Wales, the most prominent of the younger royal set, having substituted a felt hat for a crown and flannel trousers for princely regalia, is said to have been a disappointment to Spain. Evidently Spain expected a more traditional sort of dignity. The sobriquet that young Edward earned was "Prince of Jazz", and the epithet does not seem to have been meant favorably...
...Arlen, Anglo-Armenian raconteur, spread his fame to the banks of the Hudson and set a fashion in headgear among remotest upcreek settlements. Simultaneous with his return* to the U. S., Michael Arlen's agents last week announced that his novel and play of 1924-25, The Green Hat, are to have a third incarnation, as cinema, perhaps with Norma Talmadge. More directly responsible for Mr. Arlen's arrival was the U. S. publication of his new novel.f...