Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentlemen, there she is!" and the commander's hat sailed into the sea. A mighty cheer ... reporters and crews of seven squat salvaging ships imitated with whole coveys of whirling caps cast gayly into the surly ocean...
Three years ago a big, leathery-faced gentleman in white flannel trousers, white doeskin shoes, a blue serge coat and stiff straw hat, climbed carefully up to the driver's seat of a multi-horsepowered tractor reaper-binder and drove it around in a 90-acre Kansas wheat field for a few minutes, while cameras clicked furiously and other carefully garbed gentlemen stood in the stubble grinning jovially. Then President Harding, Senator Arthur Capper, Governor Davis, William Allen White and others repaired to a public green in the nearby town of Hutchinson, Kan., where the President gave a disquisition...
...traditional North American invades England with his five gallon hat and blundering manners. He has arrived to marry an English widow whom he has never seen. Through the vagaries of an old man's will this marriage will net them jointly $3,750,000. The widow objects to being married for money, disguises herself as her own parlor maid and wins the rude invader by her wit and charm...
...sell for the highest bid that was placed, in a sealed envelope, under a painting. Some of the best painters in England sold their canvases for $5; a painting by Sir John Lavery went for $37. But Augustus John, that swaggering British Van Dyke with his great soft hat and his little sharp beard, is a shrewd business man as well as a capable painter; he knew that when people are watched they are generous but that the offers one seals up in privy envelopes are apt to be mean. His show brought him $25,000, with a top price...
...play in which a young woman who defended her excessive sexual promiscuity was offered as a sympathetic heroine. (The Green Hat...