Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wets will have to change .State laws before they can present any reason to Congress for changing the Volstead act. In such a contest straw ballots are as useless as a straw hat in a blizzard...
Vera, Countess Cathcart, wearing a green felt hat, faced a judge of the U. S. District Court last week in Manhattan. She was appealing for a writ of habeas corpus to release her from the clutches of U. S. immigration officials...
Hilarious Irish students at the University of Belfast made much of a rotund, distinguished and almost equally hilarious visitor. They presented him with a "puddy hat," and he clapped it on his head. They called his attention to a clay pipe stuck in the brim, and he cried that he accepted it as a tribute to his chief, that inveterate pipe smoker, Premier Baldwin. They gave their puddy-hatted guest a shillalah. And while he brandished it, they drew him about the campus in an Irish "jaunting car."* Finally, in Ulster Hall, he received the honorary degree of Doctor...
...black-bearded man wearing a cocked hat and displaying an immense brass shield called last week at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently...
...GREEN HAT - Katharine Cornell almost makes you believe...