Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State Industrial Board. An expert on labor and social problems, she corrected the U. S. Public Employment Service's low unemployment estimate last August. She has a 15-year-old daughter. She is a Mount Holyoke graduate; always wears a brown, high-crowned, three-cornered hat. She went into social service work after witnessing Manhattan's tragic Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911, in which 146 girl workers were killed...
There were many "ancient customs" that were lived up to even more strictly than the regular laws, and which were hardest on the first-year men. Among these traditions was one which forbid any Freshman to wear his hat in the college yard, unless it rained, snowed, hailed, or unless he had both hands full. Another hard rule on the freshmen was that they had to furnish bats, balls and footballs for the use of students, to be kept at the "buttery...
...Vagabond danced upon the point of a needle, he was so very happy. There before his eyes lay a great feast spread. Julian Coolidge in admiral's uniform was drinking champagne out of Field Marshal Apted's sliper, and liking it. Marriman was eating a freshman's hat with caviar and coffee. There was an effulgent unity which clung to his person like a baltimore enreole. The President mounted a stop ladder to read from an early annotated edition of the daily CRIMSON. The Vagabond swooned. It was more than angel tissue could bear...
...stockholder in his father's paper firm of Harding, Jones & Co., but he takes no active part in its affairs. He goes fishing in the Sierras, gives talks at business men's meetings, plays golf and bridge. Dressed in golf trousers, an old sweater and a grey hat pulled far down on his grooved and sunburned face, he potters about the North Hollywood bungalow where he lives with his wife, son, and four-year-old daughter Carolyn, who sprawls about in a specially monstrous sandbox. The role of football wizard is, on the whole, superior to any other...
...Fordham in 1930 that the team, 12 points behind, made three touchdowns in the second half, won 20-12. Last week, Coach Madigan failed to repeat his Leaves of Gold speech. St. Mary's got no touchdowns. During games he walks rapidly up & down the sidelines, pulls his hat over his ears, spits on his hands. St. Mary's record since 1925: won 52, lost 11. tied...