Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a cutaway, striped trousers and congress gaiters, carrying a silk hat and a hickory stick, "ex-Senator" Coleman went grinning on to the floor, assisted by two young Negroes. There he answered questions: "I was born July 7, 1845 and belonged to Mr. Ely Coleman at Chester." His pay as Senator: "It was regular. I got some more when I voted fuh some of the bills." Prohibition: "Now on this prohibition question I'm all right. . . . Fuh two reasons. Fus' we needs a little liquor and second, dem what wants it gits it whether they buys...
Trying not to gawp, a well mannered crowd at the British Industries Fair in London last week followed a distinguished party of visitors at a discreet distance. Hat in hand, bulky Lord Derby led the way. Behind him came the Duchess of York. A fashion show was in progress. Well knowing Queen Mary's aversion to bare legs on tennis courts, one manikin in flannel shorts and grasping a racket trembled and turned very red. The Duchess of York saved the day. "I think they are very practical," said she to Lord Derby...
...Swedish law could not reach him and his fragile little romance crashed across the world's front pages. The young couple, dodging about London, was suddenly at the vortex of a wind storm of high diplomacy. The Swedish Ambassador to Great Britain, Baron Palmstierna, put on his silk hat and called on his King's grandson at his hotel. Could not His Royal Highness put off this whole hasty business for more mature consideration? H. R. H. could not. An attache called on Fraulein Patzek and Sigvard was furious. Wherever they went, to a West End restaurant...
...Chipote (The Tough Guy), himself "the wild beast of the mountains." His men reverently called him San Digno (The Worthy Saint). When he went into battle he hung extra cartridge belts around his neck, shined up his puttees and stuck a jungle flower into his shovel-shaped cowboy hat. The Nicaraguan Government could not stop him. Five thousand U. S. Marines chased him for five years, killed nearly 1,000 of his followers, reported him dead a score of times but never laid hands on him. U. S. newspapers uniformly called him "bandit." But what Sandino wanted, and what...
...Take off your hat. Try to ask fewer stupid questions while we have lunch...