Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inscription: "For Bravery in the face of Senate Gas." A telegram offering him the Democratic nomination for President in 1928, which Mr. Dawes accepted provided the Republican nomination was added to it. A small silk hat, to which Mr. Dawes replied: "My head is no larger than it was when I came to the Senate." A yellow taxicab, accompanied by the reading of a parody on "Sheridan 20 Miles Away," which told how Mr. Dawes slept at the Hotel Willard while the Senate voted down the nomination of Charles B. Warren for Attorney General...
...small silk hat, to which Mr. Dawes replied: "My head is no larger than it was when I came to the Senate...
...Earth is a curious proportion. Canada, Australia and Ireland have had no Cardinals since the deaths of their last representatives in the Sacred College. The Americas have but five Cardinals?the U. S. four,* South America one.? England has only two.** Belgium desires a successor to the red hat of the late Cardinal Mercier...
...mother told me that I was not cut out for a paper doll, that I had larger things to do than wash other peoples poodles. So at the ripe and mellow age of forty-nine I strapped my felt hat to my black overcoat and set out for Cambridge. Arriving there about half past nine what was my surprise when I saw that someone had arrived there before me--it was quite a thrill to see the long line of Yard Cops on their conservations with their arms crossed across their abdomens and that look which Abraham Lincoln has described...
...President Harding. Born in Kentucky, he spent most of his youth in the saddle in the territory of New Mexico. Then he plunged into law and politics. Reward came. He was elected the first U. S. Senator from New Mexico. Senator Fall, weighing 180 pounds,* wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the southwest, was popular in a frontierish sort of way. Most important was his friendship with that unimpressive, loyal group of which Senator Harding was one. Mr. Fall's hopes grew big when Friend Harding was elected President-perhaps he would be appointed Secretary of State, perhaps merely...