Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Watching wave follow wave of infantry, machine gun and artillery units in a mimic motorized attack, the maneuvers' distinguished guests, including Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in a brown and battered Harvard hat, knew that few soldiers would walk to the next...
Having slept in Abraham Lincoln's bed at the White House, Scot MacDonald moved to the British Embassy for his last days in Washington, rode out early in the afternoon to doff his hat at the tomb of Woodrow Wilson. Lest anyone suppose Mr. Hoover had told him to do this to ensure Democratic Senatorial votes for a future treaty, Embassy officials announced that he went of his own volition...
...eyes may not wander farther than the perimeter of a circle of radius seven inches, whose center is at the center of his plate; and he must see that all of the upperclassmen at his table are properly supplied with food. In barracks a plebe always removes his hat before entering the room of an upperclassman. He is restricted from using "Diagonal Walk," a shortcut across the main parade, and also from walking on "Flirtation Walk...
...knot came undone, Orcutt and Hicks were out of the tournament and Collett was as good as champion. Or not quite as good. Two ladies clipped through their match and stood in her way. One was a slight, wiry lady in a brown sweater and a brown sports hat- Mrs. Dorothy Shearer Higbie of Detroit. At the beginning of her match with Collett the latter, though serious, seemed to be thinking of something else. Suddenly news spread over the course that Miss Collett and Mrs. Higbie had left the fourteenth green and that Mrs. Higbie was four up. Galleries...
...citizens who are weary of bridge, ping-pong, cards-in-the-hat, yet who cannot endure the strain of an evening without a game in some form, were last week offered a new and original pastime invented by so famed an author as Norman Angell, British economist and pacifist. Called The Money Game and published by E. P. Dutton & Co. in the unique form of an explanatory book bound with a box of cards, the new entertainment purports to combine the thrill of cards with instruction in finance...