Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour later, tongue in cheek, he was fibbing to a comely girl with a pert purple hat. "I'm a delegate from Andorra," he said. She looked at him blankly. "It's in the Pyrenees," he explained...
...sparkling, the Rhenish Symphony of Schumann so gravely romantic, that in intermission the lobby was abuzz with the talk of this coming young conductor. The program went on with Debussy's La Mer, the Intermezzo from Granados' Goyescas, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat. At the end the audience was on its feet cheering. The players stamped their feet, beat excitedly on their music racks...
...mere maintenance of government pay cuts is going to balance the budget in 1936. The CWA will have to go, and the rest of the new alphabet, and with it all the rabbits which have been pulled out of the hat since March...
...more scholarly work than Who Rides America? (TIME, Feb. 26), The Robber Barons will take its place on many a carefully considered library shelf. Though Author Josephson has an ax to grind, its edge is no longer considered socially dangerous. And though, like a good Jew, he keeps his hat on in these sacred precincts, few will hear any bees buzzing within it. ". . . We have tried in so far as possible to write of them [the Robber Barons] without anger, to paint them as no more 'wicked' than they or their contemporaries actually were, though we are aware...
...National Labor Board may, without any occult insight into the backstage life of the N. R. A., be safely termed a victory for the shrewdly-hitting Secretary of Labor over her burly opponent, Hugh Johnson. In the struggle over the remodelling of the strike mediation, Miss Perkins, despite her hat, seems to have gained the ear of the Executive very effectively, and has brought it about that the N. L. B. no longer is compelled to hand over its decisions to the so-called compliance division for final review, but will be able to work quickly to its own conclusions...