Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pacts last week. Later he drove from the Palace of Buckingham to that of St. James's and held his first levee of the season. To St. James's came many an ambassador, came also Premier Stanley Baldwin, laced into a gold-buttoned coat, abashed beneath a huge military hat, fiddling speculatively with a sword...
...Wagner matinee cycle, was given at the Metropolitan Opera House. Thousands jammed their way through the great front doors, determined not to miss the only performance of the season of the first "Ring" opera. In through the back door went a short, dumpy old lady, in a seagoing hat and an old brown storm coat. She was Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 65 years old, appearing at the Metropolitan for the first time in nine years, 38 years* after her debut there as Erda. It was late in the opera and an audience, unused to operas with no intermission, was shuffling restlessly...
...wife; Mrs. Lotts Biggar, his mother-in-law; Dewey and Wanna, the twins, and Lotta, Kenny, and Willie, the other children. Mr. Collier freely makes additions to the family whenever he finds it to be to his advantage. In satirizing prominent people or current events he puts a squashed hat on his subject and gives him a name as near the original as possible. The most popular of these are Kidman Grow, for Dr. Cadman, Martin Grow, for Mr. Martin Lomasney, and Homer Grow, for Mr. Homer Loring. Mr. Collier takes great delight in doing this and says...
...scene of the crash was the broad Champs-Elyseées, where motor cars have perhaps more space in which to avoid one another than anywhere else in Paris. He meticulously read out of his notebook a list of the personal damages sustained from flying glass: Un?The derby hat of Marshal Foch pierced by a sliver. Deux?The lapel of his civilian coat likewise rent. Trois?Minor lacerations suffered by Mlle. Godart, by her mother who was riding with her, by Captain Hopital, aide to Marshal Foch...
...GREEN HAT - Michael Arlen's gaudy chromo of the life and loves of Iris March (Katharine Cornell...