Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Guthrie Sutherland, 62, of Knowle, Warwickshire manufactures gas meters and stands for no nonsense. He had a chance last week to sell his meters to the municipality of Brighton, famed seaside resort. John Guthrie Sutherland packed his brief case, put on his hat and went down to see about it. He also took his "brolly" (umbrella), an object without which no Briton ever feels comfortable...
...persuaded Polish authorities to let him recruit a squadron of War-trained pilots still loafing in Paris cafes. Back to Warsaw he took ten crack flyers. Major Cedric E. Fauntleroy had been chief test and ordnance pilot of the A. E. F., later flew with Rickenbacker's famed "Hat in the Ring Squadron." Captain Edward C. Corsi had been a chasse pilot for France. Several had served with Britain's Royal Flying Corps. The Polish unit with which they were merged was commanded by Germany's Wartime chief of air forces in Turkey, Col. Ludomil Rayski...
...Vagabond loves best, though, not the turmoil of those days, but their rules and order. No Freshman might wear his hat in the Yard, unless it rained, hailed, or snowed, provided he were on foot, and had not both hands full; nor might any Undergraduate wear his hat in the College yard, and no Bachelor when the President was there. Those were the days when all Freshmen were obliged to go on any errand for any of his seniors, Graduates or Undergraduates, at any time; when "a Senior Sophister had authority to take a Freshman from a Sophomore; a Middle...
...seen the rosy bald spot of his astute manager, National Chairman James Aloysius Farley whose purpose, like that of a good boxer, is to keep the Republicans constantly on the defensive, force the fighting. William Gibbs McAdoo who pulled the Roosevelt nomination out of William Randolph Hearst's hat at Chicago ostentatiously joined the Governor's party as it entered California, planted himself close to the nominee as friend and counselor. Hovering in the California background were Publishers Hearst and Bernarr Macfadden whose newspaper and magazine support has notably helped Governor Roosevelt to reach his "forgotten...
...girl . . . the boy's name is J. Weatherstrip Reilley. ... He was born during the World War and they called him Weatherstrip because he kept his father out of the draft. The boy has so many wrinkles on his forehead ... he has to screw his hat on his head. . . . On his vest is dangling a golden charm . . . it's a piece of an omelet. . . . He says 'What is that?' And she says 'That is a canvas back duck.' And he says 'Well, take the canvas back and bring me the duck...