Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Reading the rules of the game of Babbitt in TIME, July 26, [MISCELLANY, p. 29] we decided to play a game. The first score I claimed was for a redheaded, spatted chap with a muddled face, a monocle and a fancy hat band. I forgot a cane too. My opponent refused to allow the score. We agreed to let you decide the bet-"Was he a Babbitt?" JOHN COWARD...
...Place de Tertre a U. S.- tourist-jammed, see-Montmarte-by-night charabanc was mobbed. Many a Knox hat was stove in. Many a pair of Hickok suspenders gave way. Havoc. . . . But no serious injuries...
Prudent, he donned a business suit and a derby hat, the latter concealing his pontifical calotte. Indefatigable, he baptised and confirmed, hour after hour, the swarms of infants and adolescents whose devout parents hustled them to the cathedral...
...innocent pastime, often perverted by adults into a gambling game; in principle it is the same as drawing lots. Several white pebbles and one black pebble are put in a pot or hat. The players draw one pebble each in turn, without looking. Drawing the black pebble puts a player out of the game, when all pebbles are returned to the receptacle and drawing begins afresh among the survivors. The tension of the drawing between the last two players in a good game is "frazzling" to the nerves...
...distinction by killing Major Pitcairn. Jacob Bishop, Negro, was one-time pastor of the First Baptist (white) church of Portsmouth, Va. In 1773, in Maryland, two-thirds of those teaching both Whites and Negroes were felons. An escaping slave prior to 1865 wore "a black cloth coat, a high hat, white flannel waistcoat, a checked shirt, a pair of everlasting breeches, a pair of yarn stockings, a pair of old pumps . . . and sundry other clothes...