Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before dawn Executioner Deibler put on his silk hat and black cotton gloves, and a police official arrived with a priest, a prison barber, a glass of rum and a cigaret. These last Bandit Spada waved indignantly aside...
...needed fresh publicity to re-establish his nuisance value with the Administration. If his lone filibuster against NRA should somehow succeed-and perhaps other Senators who hated the President as much as he did would come to his aid-he could stick a Blue Eagle feather in his hat and call it macaroni or a great personal victory over the New Deal. Besides, throngs of visiting Shriners in the galleries made it a fine afternoon for speechmaking. So, making a parliamentary motion to get the floor...
...with the river labeled "Rio Téo-doro." Below, kneeling at a portable table, Kermit Roosevelt keeps a record of the expedition. In the centre two expeditionists are pushing aside jungle growth so that a burly, square-headed figure in khaki breeches and boots may gaze with hat in hand upon his river...
...Glass Key (Paramount) is a figure of speech employed by Ed Beaumont (George Rait) to predict the situation in which his political boss, Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold), will find himself if he continues to dress up in silk hat and cane, trade his power for the daughter of a re-form Senator seeking reelection. Sleek, sardonic, imperturbable, Ed Beaumont follows Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter, to a midnight rendezvous with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry...
...future of Harvard depended on the activities of Mr. Apted, head of the Yard police. Because of the importance of this office, he raised Mr. Apted to the station of Major-General, and at the close of his speech presented him with a sword and an admiral's hat...