Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...local Government inspector, J. M. Carey, approached, hat in hand, spoke in low voice to the Premier. The mine was full of poisonous gasses. Rescue work, even in gas masks, was too dangerous. The inspector had ordered that no one should go down in the mine until the fumes of explosion should be pumped away by the electric ventilators. Any other course was madness, said Inspector Carey, but the wives and families of the entrapped men were getting restless. He could not conscientiously advise the Premier to remain with his wife in that vicinity...
When I go out I wear only this sort of crown,"-pointing to her hat...
...million people crowded into the town to participate in Mardi Gras (fat Tuesday) with the definite purpose in mind of having a good time. Out of that picturesque escapade a hundred years ago has emerged the serious business of celebrating its anniversary. Pink-cheeked Iowans with Happy Hooligan hat complexes are frantically chased through the crowds by corpulent wives arrayed as Madame Gump...
Wilbur--"Americana"--8:15 o'clock--What J.P. McEvoy pulls out of your Uncle Samuel's high hat. Step up, gents, and see ourselves as others...
...picture was a portrait of Edward VII, of the Prince of Wales on horseback, of Mona Lisa, of a spaniel, a cauliflower. Actually it was a Japanese print of two birds perched on a human skull. The nearest "thought" sent in was one describing the mask and derby hat worn at one point by Dr. J. V. Woolley, "Honorary Research Officer." And one telepathist accurately described a cardboard box with a scarlet lid which, though not used in the experiment, was present in the prisoners' room and might have come under observation during a period of concentration...