Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Benito Mussolini knew that there was more to the conversations than that. So did the French Government. Minister of Marine François Pietri sent his silk hat out to be steamed before hurrying down to Marseilles to meet King Alexander. In the Hotel Crillon in Paris chambermaids scoured the royal suite till it gleamed, and at a dozen French parade grounds troops tramped up & down before exasperated sergeants getting ready for a great state review. So great was the stake in the game he was about to play that at the last minute, Foreign Minister Barthou himself decided...
...transatlantic liner brought into New York harbor last week a swart little man with a waxed mustache and a hat several sizes too small, photographers would have rushed out to Quarantine and presently crowds would have lined up for the opening of the Philharmonic-Symphony. Those who got in would have stood in their seats and yelled for Arturo Toscanini...
...bold, downright boss of the third biggest U. S. steel corporation is doing something more than talk about steel's prospects. Now in the midst of a merger with Corrigan, McKinney and Truscon, he is supposed to have plans for further mergers under the hat that almost never leaves his baldish head, except when he sleeps and banquets. Topping all this activity is a recapitalization scheme which is intended to put Republic's finances on a solid steel foundation...
...Anglo-Catholic desires an archbishop simply for the dignity and exaltation of the Church. However exalted it might be inwardly, the Church would nevertheless be obliged to accept the outward trappings of an archbishop-call him "Your Grace," give him a primatial cross, add a ten-tasseled heraldic hat and pallium to the insignia of his see, surround him with ten deacons of honor, swing a censer nine times at him in church and officially call him "Most Reverend" instead of "Right Reverend"-the last a practice which Anglo-Catholics long ago adopted...
...leisurely wending his way along the scholastic labyrinths when his wandering eye lit upon the figure of a man proceeding him through the corridor and, horror or horrors, the man's head was not bared in accordance with the tenets of convention but boldly, jauntily attired with a felt hat. The professor's composure was, to put it mildly, upset and without a word of warning he swept down upon the hapless figures and with one expert swipe of his cane divested th head of its burden. It was only then that he discovered the identity of the offender...