Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington D. C., even the street-cleaners felt that something momentous was about to happen. They saw a man in a derby swagger up to a man in a flopping, broad-brimmed, black hat and grip his hand magnificently; they heard two unimportant-looking old gentlemen discussing something terrifically important. "Why all this ho-kum?" they asked one another, laying down their shovels. Alert citizens would have told them that Congress reconvenes on Dec. 6 and that lawmakers often arrive early...
...name of one Ernest Lindstrom, Counselor of the Ministry. Another Finnish diplomat, named Lindblom, had just died, but few knew it, and Dr. Hjelf, saying he knew the passport name of Lindstrom would certainly be mistaken for Lindblom, calmly relates that he dressed me in business suit, felt hat, colored glasses, to look like Lindblom, and that I shaved my mustache to facilitate the transformation. Thus attired I am reported to have motored to the border in a diplomatic car, and to have expressed pleasure to Dr. Hjelf that it did not fly the red flag, emblem of Finland...
...Speech. It was before this monument that President Coolidge doffed his hat, shed his overcoat; faced a biting wind, radio transmitters, 150,000 people; orated. His one pronouncement of policy was that the U. S. would not enter the World Court unless the Senate reservations were accepted in toto. He said in part...
...Freshman shall wear a Gown or walk with a Cane or appear out of his Room without being fully dressed and with his Hat," Later the headpiece comes in for further attention: "When ever a Freshman speaks to a Superior is spoken to by one he shall keep his hat off until he is bidden...
...carrying a Fascist flag. Dr. Leonard S. Rau, a physician of Lawrence, Long Island, was one of those who imprudently neglected to salute a Fascist banner in Rome. Since the doctor is 65, he was able to make but slight resistance when a Fascist youth knocked off his hat and another struck him with doubled fist upon the temple. Mrs. Rau, with great presence of mind, shrieked "Americano! We are Americanos! AMERICANO!!" Thus appraised of the nature of their prey, the Fascists let go of Dr. Rau, passed...