Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obscure men were laid to rest. The dead buried, a handful of women surged around Governor-elect Earle to scream in Italian: "If you don't send those murderers to the electric chair we'll kill them ourselves." He did not understand, but later he passed the hat among his friends for the families of the newly dead...
...there was a great pother of excitement when Republican Oscar De Priest's wife in a blue chiffon dress, grey hat and coat and on Mrs. Herbert Hoover's invitation, went to the White House one afternoon to drink tea with white Congressmen's ladies (TIME, June 24, 1929). Mrs. Mitchell will expect a similar tea-date with Mrs. Roosevelt. "There is no prejudice against my people in the present Administration.'' the black Gentleman from Illinois told his constituents. "This is a new day under a New Deal...
...booth at a London Fair, Queen Mary saw a jigsaw puzzle, tried to put it together, failed, bought it. Next day she made more news by wearing a feather-decked hat instead of her customary high toque...
...fashioned high-wheel bicycles accounted for the appearance in last week's news of George Washington in a striking state of undress. Noting a sudden public interest in the "bone-shakers" of the 1860s, United Pressman Frederick Othmann took up his hat and went over to Washington's Smithsonian Institution to research...
Though there are few older situations than this, Miss Bankhead manages to get through the moraturi te salutamus business with a minimum of fustian. She nervously stabs cigarets into ash trays, gasps, whispers in the approved manner of the Green Hat school of acting. With but two months left to live, she finds that dissipation is not a proper preparation for meeting her Maker, goes to Dr. Steele in Vermont. Here, before Death overtakes her, Miss Bankhead runs the other gamut of her talent, bouncing around on furniture, puffing out her cheeks in gay girlishness...