Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate had just passed the Borah resolution to investigate the St. Lawrence treaty agreement. What did Governor Roosevelt think of that? Governor Roosevelt showed what he thought by waving his white duck hat and grinning...
...Staten Island Edison notes for maturing old ones (TIME, June 20), Mr. Hopson has lately been in a tight fix. His company must raise $18,556,000 to meet early bond maturities. Last week he pulled not one but four rabbits from his fecund hat. To his 250,000 security holders he offered $25,000,000 in first mortgage bonds of New Jersey Power & Light Co., A. G. & E. controlled. Each security-owner was expected to buy $100 worth of bonds at a 20% discount on the generous rate of $10 down and $10 monthly. Should subscriptions fail to pour...
Dancer Fokine telegraphed the Police in Cleveland and Niagara Falls: "FIND SEMENOFF. . . ." But Nikolai Semenoff had already spent a night at the Temperance House in Niagara Falls, walked out next morning, doffed hat, top coat and stick, laid them neatly on the shore. Helpless witnesses saw him plunge off Table Rock, go over the brink in his last and bravest pirouette...
...West awaits one thing more - a red hat. For two years there have been ru mors of a consistory at which His Holiness Pope Pius XI would add to the College of Cardinals, depleted now from 70 to 54.- Almost certain to be nominated are two North American prelates, Quebec's Arch bishop Jean Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve. successor to the late Felix Raymond Marie Cardinal Rouleau; and busy 71-year-old Archbishop Edward Joseph Hanna of San Francisco, who got for his coadjutor Salt Lake's Mitty, now replaced by The Bronx's Kearney...
...bear the name Cutbeard. Small Compton Mackenzie thought it only natural that Dr. Arden, who lived at No. 1, should, with his lanky frame and short frock coat, incarnate the figure 1. Mr. Lockett, living at No. 3, had carroty curls that puffed out beneath his curly-brimmed silk hat "in a very three-like way." And who should live at No. 13 but the highly un fortunate Spinks. He was the impecunious editor of the weekly Bohemia, she was a frowzy woman who messed about her barnlike house in flamboyant silk wrappers, looking "like some tropical bird whose plumage...