Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heil Hitler! Deutschland erwache! Juda verrecke!" they bellowed as he emerged waving his black felt hat. "Hail Hitler! Germany awake! Perish Juda!" Wasting not a second, Chancellor Hitler piled into his Mercedes beside the chauffeur, shot off between lines of police to form his Cabinet with record speed. There were rumors, doubtless untrue, but alarming, that General von Schleicher & Friends were about to attempt a "General's Putsch" and proclaim restoration of the House of Hohenzollern. In less than an hour the new Hitler Cabinet had met for a brief conference in the Reich Chancellery and Germans were staring...
Loudest Monarchist cheers greeted Count Eulenberg, leader of East Prussia's "Steel Helmets" (War Veterans). "The German Republic," said Count Eulenberg, "is like an African Negro who struts about in a high silk hat, celluloid cuffs and with a red parasol-thinking he's a civilized gentleman! . . . [Guffaws] There is no better capital investment, my friends, than a bright and shining sword [cheers]. . . . Bread comes through the sword...
...sequences which are less reminiscent of propaganda newsreels released during the War: a mangled soldier being carried into a front line dressing station and coming out with both legs gone; an old Belgian woman sitting in a shell-hole beside the corpse of a soldier and snivelling into his hat; hand-to-hand trench fighting in which, although the photography is somewhat blurred, it is possible to see a real bayonet go through a real soldier; a squad of U. S. infantry going over the top into machine gun fire; a zeppelin picked out by searchlights over England; a chaplain...
...which Columbia Broadcasting System happily cooperated. On every Wednesday night program for nearly a year Gracie has been piping stories of this brother who invented a way of manufacturing pennies for 3?, who printed a newspaper on Cellophane so that when dining in restaurants he could watch his hat & coat, who hurt his leg falling off an ironing board while pressing his pants. Early this month Gracie simpered the news that her brother had disappeared. The stunt was to find him. Columbia Broadcasting's part lay in letting Burns & Allen wander in & out of other station programs. Amid prearranged...
...medicine men in Panama and northern South America. On the heads of the canes, some of them generations old, are carved statuets of their god of medicine. He is a man who closely resembles the U. S. caricature of Bluenose the Prohibitor. He has a long nose, a high hat and European dress. Some carvings are crude, some masterpieces of wood carving. Herbert W. Krieger, National Museum curator of ethnology, noted that all obviously were intended to portray the same individual, a white...