Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic Senators and Representatives, was made Sergeant at Arms of the Senate last year, dropped his other duties and sallied forth from the Senate accompanied by J. Mark Trice, Deputy Sergeant at Arms and official Storekeeper. Sergeant Jurney wore grey striped trousers, a cutaway, a black 10-gal. hat, a heavy overcoat with a red handkerchief hanging out of its pocket. He carried a document signed by Vice President Garner directing him to "take into custody the body of the said William P. MacCracken before the bar of the Senate." A few minutes later in an office in the National...
...Hat, a Coat, a Glove (by William Speyer, adapted by William A. Drake; Crosby Gaige and D. K. Weiskopf, producers). "Tell Mr. Cravath to be there by one," says Lawyer Robert Mitchell (A. E. Matthews) to his secretary in this play. This cool second-act instruction does not mean that famed Paul D. Cravath is about to be seen in A Hat, a Coat, a Glove. It merely shows that Mr. Mitchell has a 16-cylinder legal mind, with big names in his address book. For such a bland, patrician barrister, he is in a most astonishing predicament. His wife...
...Wearing a pea-green uniform, many medals and a laced hat Jonkheer H. M. van Haersma de With, new Minister from the Netherlands, arrived at the White House, formally presented his credentials, left with a beaming smile...
Tartly at the British Treasury next day a spokesman for Chancellor Chamberlain spiked the MacDonald plea for prompt stabilization, suggested that the Prime Minister had been talking through his hat...
...left the stage. But not little Ruth Slenczynski. She stayed firmly planted on her piano stool, tossing off encore after encore even after Richard M. Tobin came on stage to present her with a string of pearls from the Orchestra Association. Backstage Conductor Molinari snatched up his hat and overcoat, started for the door muttering: "It's an insult to the orchestra, the most confounded impertinence I ever heard of." It took great diplomacy to make him come back, finish the concert...