Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success of a university should be measured by the way its undergraduates think. He pointed to the recent report of the Student Council Committee on Education as just such a standard, and one by which he was willing that his administration should be judged. A similar feather in his hat, of smaller significance, perhaps, and a plume of different hue, is the Gadfly which appears this morning. For not only is it a careful and diligent attempt to cope with problems of imminent import to the University, but it also presents an attitude quite opposite to that of the Student...
Emerging from the obscurity of the state capital, Governor Arthur Harry Moore, sometimes dubbed "Silk Hat Harry," announced first that he did not have power to remove local officials accused of abusing the strikers...
Over 100 scientific gentlemen, representing 13 countries of Europe including the Soviets, assembled abroad and sailed to the U. S. on a slow boat. When they landed last week, one of their number, a lean, active gentleman of 81, in a Derby hat of antique cut, remarked: "Politicians are one thing; electricians another. . . .Talk about your League of Nations! We are one, and have been one for 20 years...
...Jubilant, Editor Mencken picked up his hat and went out to luncheon. He was having lunch that day at the Harvard Union. Now, long before he had committed his offense on the common, long before the trial, the loyal students of Harvard had planned this luncheon in honor of one whom they regarded as a martyr of prudery. They were sure that he would be convicted. When Judge Parmentier's decision reached them, the campus took on the electric glory that thrills it on days when the Harvard football eleven has won a match. The huge hall at the Union...
...Brown's antipathy to women was such that he very seldom allowed them on board, though he often tolerated male visitors. To one woman who took off her hat he cried: "Put it on! Only liars take off their hats!" In the awkward pause which followed, the visitor twiddled her thumbs. "Madam," said Mr. Brown, "I do not know what your signal means, so I cannot answer...