Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...evenings before President Hoover's special message went to Congress, a tired-looking gentleman in a Homburg hat stepped off a train from New York. It was John Pierpont Morgan. ''I'm just down here for dinner," he told newsmen. "I have no statement to make." Two private detectives closed in chorusing: "Mr. Morgan has no statement to make." That night Secretary of the Navy
...know where you got the picture of me, but it certainly represented my feelings on that day, and does not in the least resemble me outside of my hat...
...Stalin's proxy, Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was to meet the Turks at the station. He wondered whether to wear a silk hat or the orthodox Bolshevik headgear, a cap. Mrs. Molotov. young, vivacious and a friend of young, serious Mrs. Stalin, suggested the way out of her husband's dilemma, whispered Moscow gossip. Going to the station and up to the very last moment before the train chuffed in, Premier Molotov wore his cap then whisked it out of sight as a Red Army band struck up the "Internationale" and an entire company of Red Army soldiers snapped...
Students at St. John's wore uniforms until 1826; black hat, blue coat, trousers grey in winter, white in summer. They took military training until a few years ago, when it was abolished by Lieut.-Colonel Enoch Barton Garey, only military head St. John's ever had. Lieut-Colonel Garey resigned in 1929. Douglas Gordon became acting president last May. Since then he has introduced partial substitution of theses for course examinations, tutorial conferences and individual reading for classroom work...
...very little of that. Broadway took the Fakirs to its bosom, as did collegians and Greenwich Village girls. Popularity was the death of the Fakirs Ball It got so tough it had to be killed. There were battles royal on the ballroom-floor. Drunken youths played the hat & coat game in the cloakrooms. Chorus girls had their clothes torn off. Somebody shattered the chandeliers in the Hotel Astor; next year the Fakirs rolled table tops down the Commodore stairway, injuring several passersby. The Fakir exhibitions stopped in 1917, but the Ball went on. In 1923 New York hotelkeepers banded together...