Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lining of Johann Strauss's hat...
...fact, is on the horns of a dilemma. You cannot have music without composers and at present jazz has no composers in the full sense of the term. The brains of the whole lot of them put together would not fill the lining of Johann Strauss's hat...
Last week a man sat on an Indiana front porch, stuck his thumbs in his waistcoat as is his habit, put his straw hat on the back of his head. Grey-mustachioed, wrinkle-eyed Tom Taggart, owner of French Lick Springs and Democratic boss of Indiana meditated...
...prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera: "As I lay naked on pillows in my rowboat one morning last week, out on the Mediterranean from my villa at Antibes, France-a daily practice with me, to enjoy the sun's curative rays-i fell asleep, a wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been eaten alive...
...Whom did the U. S. Chamber of Commerce advise to get a silk hat...