Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...predicted that of all the dark horses Newton Diehl Baker was "the most probable nominee" if Smith stopped Roosevelt. Last week Mr. Baker, attending his daughter's graduation from Sarah Lawrence college at Bronxville, N. Y. where he delivered the commencement address, declared: "I'm not a candidate. My hat is as far from the ring as it ever...
...first time the Lord Mayor of London flew somewhere last week, flew not only with his civic sword and his civic mace but medievally bedight in swishing robes, clanking gold chains of office and great plumed hat...
...dinner at the University of London last week the honored guest was a white-haired old fellow wearing tight-fitting trousers, a wide-brimmed straw hat, a loose white collar. He spoke to no one, ate no food. He did not even move during the whole dinner. Britishers are traditionally polite, impassive; the other dinner-guests ate their food and paid no attention to this funny old stuffed shirt...
...Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; Charles Glore of Field, Glore & Co.; President Robert E. Wood of Sears Roebuck & Co. Chosen as chairman was Sewell Lee Avery, able president of U. S. Gypsum Co. and of Montgomery Ward. "I have no magic in my briefcase and no rabbit in my hat," said Secretary Mills. The first week's experience of the new Manhattan committee suggested that other hats and briefcases were in like condition...
With the Captain was a lanky young woman of cultured mien. Her tousled blonde mop, high cheek bones and wide, tight mouth made her look remarkably like Charles Augustus Lindbergh, particularly when her hat was off. Her name was Amelia Earhart. She was working in a Boston settlement house but she had learned in California how to fly. With admonitions to keep her hat off as much as possible Publisher Putnam, whom Amelia Earhart soon learned to call "G. P." or "Gip," bore her off to Mrs. Guest. She got the job. Few months later "G. P." was able...