Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Waterbury, Conn., one William Hennesey heard that his friend, Christopher Walsh, was belittling him. Mr. Hennesey took his derringer, called on Mr. Walsh, fired, grazing Mr. Walsh's abdomen; fired again, hit himself in the hat. Doctors quieted Mr. Walsh, but when released from the hospital he called on Mr. Hennesey, thumped him, bumped, banged, kicked, bruised...
...lines. Vladimir Dubriski (Basil Rathbone), silky-suave Grand Duke in exile, is tumbled into Manhattan's gaucherie, faced with the dilemma of marrying a bloated divorcee of means or engaging in menial service for a livelihood. In a last act silhouette, he is represented donning his tall high hat, preparatory to sitting elegantly upon the dilemma's second horn...
...right wrist having recovered from lameness, the President threw a white baseball to Tristram Speaker to open the season for the Washington nine. Mrs. Coolidge wore a green hat, a green coat...
...potent Mr. PPP, turned suddenly, in the current issue of his Forbes magazine, and railed -against Henry Ford. By quotations from suppositious, always unnamed "authorities," by innuendoes and by skilled selection of facts he presumed to prove hat Henry Ford is decaying as a maker of motor cars. And he 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. Excerpts from...
...that Mr. Lardner is doing his flat and level best not to get funny. Chapter Six begins: "It was at a petting party in the Whits House that I first met Jane Austen." He took her to see Gov. Al ("Peaches") Smith, who complimented her: "I thought The Green Hat was a scream...