Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Embarrassed, Lawyer Untermyer protested that he possessed no suitable clothes, but soon the U. S. Legation supplied a frock coat, striped trousers, silk hat. Said Mr. Untermyer, later...
Gene Tunney, champion heavyweight pugilist of the world: "I was called "high hat" again last week. This time it was in an editorial in the New York World, after a report that I had declined to dine with Jack Dempsey on the grounds that appearances might be compromised if we became too friendly. The editorial said: 'Somebody ought to take this Mr. Tunney aside and explain to him just what the heavyweight championship of the world really is. It is not, as he seems to think, an ex-officio position in the Boy Scout movement. . . . It is, in fact...
...tremendously relieved: "Labor has grown up, has assumed responsibility and gone to a good tailor. . . . . There were leading Conservatives and Liberals present with lords and men of great possessions, but labor held its own in the cut of its morning coat and the tilt and gloss of its top hat...
Turning, he saw his room-mate, home-ward bound, bag in hand, hat on head...
...masculine attire. A day or so ago, there appeared at the Bourse, just at the moment when business activity was at its highest, a young man dressed in an extraordinary costume consisting of buckled shoes, long silk stockings, satin knee-breeeches, an ordinary vest and sack coat, a felt hat, and a cane. For a few moments business stopped and the crowd stared at his costume and admired his courage and then in contradistinction to the enthusiast who became so enamored of classical culture that he wandered about the streets of New York in the costume of the ancient Greeks...