Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which he himself would be a figurehead chairman. When it was announced that the NRAdministrator would take a two-week rest at the seashore, it was prophesied that he would not return. Pundit Mark Sullivan cruelly suggested that the President was saying to General Johnson: "Here's your hat. I'm sorry you can't stay...
Proceedings began when Boss Long cast his bill-laden straw hat on a committee table and started explaining his 27-point "purifying" program. Among the measures to come out of the Long hat were: ¶ A bill to provide a Legislative investigation of the municipal government of New Orleans, an almost exact copy of the law which empowered Samuel Seabury to investigate the New York City government and drive Mayor James J. Walker out of office...
...Conte di Savoia, ploughing across the Atlantic toward New York last fortnight, small John Kennedy, 5½, one day met a nice old priest. He admired the priest's pretty hat, his shiny jewelry. Could he play with them? The kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more...
...course we Westerners have become more or less tamed with the advance of civilization, and we all check our six-guns at the door with the hat girl when we go into a public place, and we have the Indians pretty well in hand now? but we do not like this condition to be generally known back there because it might spoil our tourist trade. However I will have to apologize for the crude tactics of our lumbermen. They have not even advanced to the Stone Age in their methods of warfare. For instance, one rarely sees anything but fists...
Still avid for publicity, naprapaths proceeded to the Century of Progress for Sally Rand, fan dancer. Giving her no time to doff her flat white hat, Naprapath Smith had her shrug off the top of her dress. He found she wore no slip, no brassiere. In search for "ligatights" he applied a gadget called a "multitherm" to her back, found none...