Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember the past is to sit in a theatre of shadows listening to lies. "... Never without his high hat ..." ? "Always drove his own team down to business . . ."?"It was breakfast, mind you, but the champagne . . ." The people who filled a bulky old building in Irving Place and 14th Street, Manhattan, one afternoon last week looked at one another suspiciously, each feeling that the rest had no business there. In the theatre of memory one sits alone. But the members of this audience tolerated one another because their theatre was a reality? a hideous brown edifice, the Academy...
...Signalizing the advent of summer weather, the President went forth on his daily stroll wearing a straw hat...
...after all this which I really dare you to read. In the meantime I shall take the stick that I am buying on the instalment plan, my hat which is twice as crumpled as Gautier would have ever dared wear his, and eat ham sandwiches at the Wurzhaus with the swagger of one who has not fooled the public for eighteen inches...
...Romantic Young Lady tells, curiously enough, the story of a romantic young lady. She dreams and sees visions after the manner of romantic young ladies. And then one day in at her open window blows the hat of her favorite novelist. The rest of the play concerns itself with her disintegrating illusion in the face of facts in the matter...
...crowd on Harvard Square? Your answers must be written legibly and in English, I do not read the papers. Well this time it was a monkey and an Italian. The Italian had a classic profile, a grand air, and a hurdy-gurdy. The monkey had two tricks, a dirty hat, and a leash. No one slept at the lecture...