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Word: hat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close of the year. Explained Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown: "When I looked at the [first] car, I found it was, too small for practicable use on formal occasions. I found that a man of my height, and I am below the average, could not wear a top hat and sit in this car." House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language-dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...Presidency by saying: "I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected." When Death finally came for him in 1891 Sherman was 71. At his military funeral in Manhattan, on a raw February day, a bystander urged one of the aged pallbearers to put on his hat, warned him he might catch his death. The oldster refused, ten days later was dead of pneumonia. That was Joe Johnston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cump Sherman | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...companion picture "Hat Check Girl" can lay its only claim to being a presentable moving picture in the person of Miss Sally Eilers. The "Girl of the Perfect Profile" has undergone a metamorphosis, whether natural or artificial it is not for the Playgoer to say, that produces a creature so nearly like Dorothy Jordan as to confuse the unfortunate spectator caught in the profusion of charms. Ben Lyon proves himself an admirable drunk but a suit brought by Robert Montgomery on the grounds of plagiarism, should be forthcoming...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...Glasgow Art Gallery rejected a gift portrait of King George V, wearing a bowler hat and talking with an Aintree race course trainer, because it was not sufficiently "majestic looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...Champs Elysées in Paris, on the third anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

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