Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famous white sailor hat that characterized the band for many seasons will return as a part of the band uniform this year...
Male correspondents noted that the head fell into a basket, that the body was dumped into a zinc-lined wicker coffin (in which the head was later placed) for delivery to pregnant Mme Gorgulov, that Executioner Anatole ("Monsieur de Paris") Deibler wore his usual derby hat and was assisted by his son-in-law André Perrier who is being groomed to succeed M. Deibler as the next "Monsieur de Paris...
...stuffed with feathers. "These are the famous feather balls," said Mr. Campbell. "They were in vogue until 1858 when they were replaced by the hard rubber 'gutties.' They have a cover of horse leather soaked in oil and are filled with gull feathers. It took a top hat full of feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs...
...great, wooden-floored warehouse is neatly piled with bunches of tobacco leaves. Buyers inspect them, fingering them, and measuring them with their eyes. The auctioneer, at one end of the room, starts to chant. Coat off, hat on the back of his head, hands on his hips, he sways to the rhythmic rise and fall of his cry. "Hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben-hobben-dobben," is the way it sounds if you have never heard it, "Hobben-dobben, ay-ay-ay-ay -ay -ni -ni -ni -ni-ni-ten-ten-ten-ten-SOLD." By crooks of fingers, nods of heads, distention...
Next week's concert will be Bob Craw ford's first formal appearance in Fairbanks. But many an oldtimer there remembers how, aged 7, Bob would sing the only song he knew, "In The Good Old Summer Time," while other children passed a fur hat among the miners. The Crawford family had migrated from Dawson, Canada, down the Yukon and up the Tanana River, looking for gold. They were among Fairbanks' first settlers. Bob Crawford first studied music on a mail order fiddle, with a French exile named Vic Durand. His first song, "My Northland," has been...