Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Diamond, big as an orange, one hot January day in 1905. A $5,000 find several years ago enabled Jacobus Jonker to hire a black Kaffir boy to do his digging. One of the Jonker sons was watching the black one day last week when the Kaffir threw his hat in the air, screamed: "Good baas [master], I found...
Digger Jonker planned to buy first a top hat and frock coat, then a sheep farm, then "a good present for Johannes," the Kaffir who screamed "Good baas...
...Schubert: Bouffant brown taffeta, tight sequin bodice, white-plumed hat...
...next morning by jogging up to Albany on a train to see how well he himself could settle another more serious emergency. The balancing of the city budget moved him to say, before leaving: "The humble Mayor of New York, a city of 7,000,000, is crawling up hat in hand, to beg the right to go to our own Legislature to ask for a bill in keeping with the Gov ernor's own views of constitutional democracy." Hot were the two letters that Governor Herbert H. Lehman had written him week before attacking what he felt...
...with an optimistic speech by Mrs. D. Leigh Cclvin, who predicted that national prohibition would be restored by the W.C.T.U. because "we've already done so many strange things." As a last cheering gesture a Mrs. Kaiser who "wore a brown ensemble with a light tan plume in her hat" sang one of her own compositions, the last lines of which carried this inspiring message...