Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks after headgear is brought out as the new thing, it may be old hat. "Millinery . . . has no intrinsic value...
...Chairman, when the officer stationed at the committee room door came in with a half-frightened expression on his face. Before he had opportunity to make explanation, we understood . . . and were ourselves almost overwhelmed with astonishment. For at the foot of the Committee table, standing solitary, his hat in his hand, his form towering, Abraham Lincoln stood." What the Committee member got was "above all an indescribable sense of his [Lincoln's] complete isolation...
...blossoming among the nightclubs. True, Mr. Lowther was getting pretty well along in years to be called, as his lawyer called him, "the kid." True, Eileen and George had been photographed together in nightclubs, and had been seen together for some time, nor was the illusion aided when the Hat Style News Bureau released a picture showing Mr. Lowther modeling one of John-Frederics' new creations...
Snitching letters and keeping photostats are what every Mystery Woman does and "Toffi," as she is also called, sat looking pleased with herself, on a front bench at the justice's right. A stumpy, determined, middle-aged woman, she wisely wore a quiet black dress and small black hat with large black velvet snood into which she tucked her mouse-brown hair. Her attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that...
...eleven minutes Paul Robeson and a chorus chanted how in 1776 Ol' Sam put on his three-cornered hat, what Patrick Henry told him about liberty or death, about George Washington and Tom Jefferson and what they did, how Betsy Ross organized a sewing circle and Paul Revere a horse race; about Old Abe Lincoln...