Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the backs of their heads shaved bald, the Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer were led in coarse, nondescript prison garb to the blood-caked block from which so many heads now roll in the sawdust. The headsman, incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck and send the blood of a German woman spouting high. According to Nazis, the Baroness von Berg was the first female aristocrat to lose her head to their New Justice...
...three Times columns, set young Mr. Chamberlain to writing it. Like few others, Bookman Chamberlain has resisted the pressure to submerge his style in the turgid stupidity of the Times. Conscientious, he spends about five hours a day reading, three more writing. Healthy, pink-cheeked, he wears a hat only in downpours. He plays tennis summer and winter, hard and often, with his smart, blonde wife, Peggy...
Into the air sailed the publishers' collective hat. To them the President's order was a victory for "freedom of the Press." Mr. Davis called it a "satisfactory adjustment," canceled the convention call...
Klein joined the queue, inched along for one hour and 20 minutes. Then he reached a dingy little shop, entered the cabinet, removed his hat, smiled brightly. Motors hummed, shutters clicked. Next he was conducted to an antechamber where he had to wait 20 more minutes. Finally he received an unexciting likeness of himself, paid 25?, departed...
...Hans Luther, German Ambassador to the U. S., passed through Austin on a tour of German communities in Texas, Governor James V. Allred gave a dinner, invited the Sängerbund, a German singing society. To paunchy, egg-bald Dr. Luther the Sängerbund presented a ten-gallon hat. "The cowboys," put in Dry Governor Allred, "use these hats for sunshades, pillows at night, to whip unruly broncos or to drink out of." Dr. Luther: To drink? Ten gallons? Water...