Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GREEN HAT-Katherine Cornell selling Michael Arlen's perfume and making you like...
When in 1906 Cardinal Goossens died and he was promoted from Monseigneur to Archbishop of Malines, he, audacious in his faith, announced as his episcopal motto: Apostolus Jesu Christi. A year later he got the red hat of Cardinal and the pastorate of Saint-Pierre-és-Liens, ancient church symbolical of religious fidelity and intrepidity among persecutions, fidelity and intrepidity which he needed and had when, in 1914, the Germans overran Belgium. Practically imprisoned in his palace, yet he sent out pastoral letters to the two and a half million faithful in his see, urging them to patriotism...
...bulletin was issued: "Hand kissing and hat tipping have been abandoned, for hygienic reasons; and the males and females of the U. S. S. R. are on a par. It now remains to eradicate kissing as a means of salutation between our males, who have displayed notable unprogressiveness in this respect." At the village of Pnieva one nicknamed "Pump" on account of his fondness for kissing persons of both sexes created a mild sensation by defying the new feminist organization "with a doggerel song," the accompaniment for which was furnished by one Gurok, village harmonica player...
...Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper in the world by printing the Treaty of Berlin...
...GREEN HAT-Michael Arlen's ingenious artificialities recaptured in a play chiefly important for the performance of Katharine Cornell...