Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Alice Roosevelt Longworth cut her way through floral strands stretched across the gangplank, struck her head against something, had her hat knocked off. Smilingly jamming hat on head she marched forward, officially opened the ship to the public. Booked to capacity for her maiden voyage this week. the Manhattan was given in charge of U. S. Lines' hero-captain, George Fried...
Marathon, First as the runners left the stadium after the start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through the hot streets of Los Angeles. They had 26 mi., 385 yd. to go in the race that closed the track & field events of the Xth Olympiad...
...Kansas City, to Congressmen investigating Government interference in private business, Mrs. Ida Watkins, weather-beaten "Wheat Queen" of Sublette, Kan., pulled off her hat. bared a brawny, toil-hardened arm. shouted: "I just want to kick the devil out of the Farm Board. ... I draw the line on the doggone, damnable Government interference with our affairs...
...subsidiaries, $18,000 a year for his home, other sums for entertaining. To people who know Sir Henry there was nothing startling in these disclosures. He is a large, jovial man of 60 who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs nearly 16 stone (220 lb.), wears a Size 8 hat, Size 12 shoe. He likes caviar at least once a day, has a fondness for oysters, small pickled onions and other things he knows are not good for him. He is frank and forward, likes to work as hard as he lives. His ebullience and flair for speechmaking have made...
...found medieval, gloomy, in spite of its beer. But at Egern on the Tegernsee in the Bavarian Oberland he had a cheerful stopover. Before leaving Munich he bought a Bavarian outfit? leather breeches, laced at the knees, white stockings, green suspenders embroidered with a stag and edelweiss, a Jager hat with a tuft of chamois hair. Stealthily accoutring himself in his hotel room Author Hergesheimer admired himself before his mirror for some time, then changed to dinner clothes, went to the bar and drank two double Martinis. He would have drunk a third but the barkeep demurred...