Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of reconstruction and relief before the country are economic problems, not political. No greater danger could befall this nation than to have the American people wept off their feet by political quackery or demagoguery and the promise of prosperity to come which cannot be conjured out of a hat by political legerdemain. Sane, well considered, sound economic thought and action alone can bring a semblance of restoration to our shattered prosperity. In my opinion Herbert Hoover, from every angle by which one might approach this problem, is best qualified to carry out such a course...
Dead for years, pick out your hat...
...chose an oldtime stoneman, Augustus Edwin Dickinson. Stoneman Dickinson, known wide and far as "Big Dick," started in the stone business in 1885 when he was 16. He is 6 ft. 4 in. tall, weighs 225 lb., is usually to be seen in a dark suit, a light felt hat. smoking a cigar...
...Soon as Dr. Norwood's discoveries became known, New Yorkers began hunting other images in marble. The Evening Post announced it would investigate, photograph, report. In the new hotel Waldorf-Astoria was found a silly-looking moose and a little gnome with long beard and tall hat. In the Empire State Building are two cadaverous Geisha girls and a Tammany Tiger, upside down...
...finally made his debut, eating a red apple in the family tradition, at a Chicago performance of Magda. Comfortably settled now in Hollywood, John Barrymore is supposed to have worn the same felt hat since the day he arrived. He speaks of the cinema and its moguls with witty contempt but sees to it that, when feasible, he is photographed from the left side, and shown, at one moment or another, puffing on a pipe. Gossipmongers, picturing him as an eccentric, are delighted by the fact that he has the only privately owned dinosaur...