Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Replied M. Germain-Martin as he struggled into his double-breasted greatcoat, clapped on his derby hat and made for the door, "Enter it on the books as 'deferred, pending the formation of a new govern-ment...
...cycle which terminated with her playing murderesses in Somerset Maugham's The Letter and in Dishonored Lady, began with Michael Aden's Green Hat. Only those who saw and relished the play in 1925 are now capable, upon reflection, of appraising its utter trashiness. The celebrated headpiece which Actress Cornell affected in this play, "pour le sport and bravely worn," was duplicated and widely bought throughout the country for $22.50. It was in "Cornell green." Author Arlen made $200,000 in royalties from the play...
...Manhattan home is on Beekman Place, overlooking the East River. Welfare Island and the belching factories of Brooklyn. In it is a brocade divan from Mrs. Partridge Presents, a chair from The Dover Road, a table from The Green Hat, a portrait from The Age of Innocence. They also have a home at Sneden's Landing, a small colony tucked under the Hudson palisades some 20 mi. from Manhattan. In the course of a wedding celebrated there last year by her landlady's son. Miss Cornell and "Flush," the water spaniel who was in The Barretts, were pitched into...
...late Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) recited similarly as early as 1921 when he published The Engineers & The Price System Economist Stuart Chase, Veblen's friend has been writing similarly since. But last summer a tall, middle-aged man named Howard Scott with a wide-brimmed hat and a prodigiously rapid, sharp, agile tongue, was being received and handed around by alert tycoons, notably Banker Frank Arthur Vanderlip. From one drawing room and dinner to another he moved everywhere causing gasps of amazement, scowls of worry, questions of deep and inquiring respect...
...like enthusiasm per se), often more humorous than he intends, he apologizes for this collection of outbursts by saying that in an old world one must still amuse oneself like a child. Every Englishman is familiar with cartoons of Winston Churchill picturing his bulging forehead crowned by a tiny hat. He explains that this is a cartoonist's invention, necessitated by the fact that he has no "distinctive mark," based on a single instance when he had to borrow a hat that was too small for him. At Monte Carlo he usually bets on red because...