Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...antithesis of the layman's notion of a prosperous Tin Pan Alleyman. There is nothing dapper or brisk about him. He has frizzy grey hair, a beaklike nose down which his spectacles are always sliding. He hates fripperies. He never has been known to wear a new hat. He buys them from his friends when they are through with them. A clean piece of manuscript paper strikes terror to his heart. He writes his tunes on old scores or he may scuff on a piece of paper until it looks properly seasoned. He is quiet, courteous, scholarly. He lives...
...scenes, chases and stampedes which follow Chaplin's principles of dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced The Italian Straw Hat, The Phantom of Moulin Rouge. International success began with talking pictures (Sous Les Toits de Paris, Le Million). For all his pictures René Clair writes the story and dialog, directs, cuts and edits. He has repeatedly rejected Hollywood contracts. Says he: "Hollywood wanted me for five years. If they are happy...
...retreat to the far end, haughtily ignoring the invasion of their domain. In such a place even the shoddiest of men take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle of their favorite ailments. Young men reveal the subtle ways of Spring in just that proper tilt of the hat. And, inevitably in May, flaunting their best clothes and their best looks along the lanes, "wymmen waxeth wonder proude." Twilight comes in on silver feet, and the Vagabond, in mellower mood, has a kindly thought even for the penny-a-liners...
...whole world, practically, seems to be giving cocktail parties. . . . Mrs. Henry Field had on a fantastic and most becoming hat ... like a parasol with a gardenia under the brim. . . . Mother (Mrs. A. H. Granger) is sailing the end of May to spend the summer in and around Vienna. . . . I've been a little tired this week and the person who is to blame is Miss Margalo Gilmore, owing to the fact that she has so many friends here. We played the piano and sang and in no time it was much too late. . . . Like all my parties, everyone just...
...hour of the slide was 8:30 a. m. The nation was just about to vote. Mayor Herriot, of whom it is said "he could sell the Lyonese as slaves and they would make no objection," had just finished his coffee & croissant. Clapping on his old slouch hat he rushed, baggy trousers flapping, to the landslide. Five minutes later Fire Chief Rossignol (Nightingale) arrived and Lyonese firemen attacked the ruins, working furiously to rescue entrapped persons before there should be another slide. Like a commanding general Mayor Herriot backed off, took a perspective view of the hillside, conferred with city...