Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earle Martin went rummaging last week for his old alpaca coat and soiled straw hat. On & off for 25 years they were part of his uniform as a newspaper editor. The coat was comfortable. Tho hat, worn winter & summer (with occasional changes for a battered felt), kept pressroom grime from the editor's bald pate. Now, after four years of blue serge and spotless linen as a Chamber of Commerce executive, he would need his old accoutrements again. He had just been hired as editor of the Cleveland News...
...referred to a wood-burning American type, owned by J. M. Bray Co. of Valdosta, Ga. It has not been used since 1928 but is ready to steam up at a hat's drop...
...front of the State historical building in the capital to "marry" Mrs. Warren Butz as "Miss Indian Territory." Mrs. Butz played the same role at Guthrie a quarter- century ago. The temperature was 32°. Bridegroom Sneed refused to take off his overcoat, did remove his black felt hat. Joked shivering Bride Butz: "I c-could get m-married a h-h-heap quicker than this...
...pier. Mrs Lubinsky went ashore in Athens, not tc inspect arrested Capitalist Samuel Insull but "to visit an antique shop"-presumably a disguised hideout for Trotsky Communists. When the ship reached Naples, Mr. Lubinsky dodged all but one persistent photographer (who snapped a view of the back of his hat), hurried ashore for a quick motor ride to Sorrento and Pompeii. Whisked through Marseilles by the police. Comrade Trotsky motored to Lyon. announced the subject of his Copenhagen lectures: "Just what is the Russian Revolution of October?" Reporters agreed that Comrade Trotsky is taking chances on his trip to Denmark...
Into one of the building's obscure back entrances that evening, hulking, bearded Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza walked slowly, tiredly. He followed a narrow, twisting corridor to a door marked PRIVATE, went in, hung up his big, loose overcoat, his black, broad-brimmed felt hat. He was early, but at the opening performance there was never any telling when a call might come for Mr. Gatti to calm some backstage confusion. Gatti had been early for 24 other opening nights. His contract has three years to run. But if this 25th opening night should be his last it would...