Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hayed the Democrats for planning to "soak the rich." With equal promptitude, stocky, ruddy little Speaker Garner of the House-to whom William Randolph Hearst referred last fortnight (and again last week over the radio; as the Hope of the Democratic Party-retorted: "Ogden Mills is talking through his hat! If he knows what the Demo-cratic tax program is, then I wish he'd tell me!" Also without ado, Speaker Garner summoned Floor Leader Rainey, Congressman Collier and Senator Harrison to his office and in good plain plainsman's language, for two and one-half hours, told...
...bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with Labor. But the spirit of conciliation prevailed, thanks principally to a 70-year-old gentleman whose jolly round head is adorned with a sugarloaf hat and gold-rimmed spectacles?President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
...clubhouse which he gave to the local golf club. The building used to be his home and since the death of his wife in 1915 he has kept a bedroom, living room and bath there. He goes to work at 8:30, a dark felt hat set squarely on his head...
...week the Pope elevated Bishop Villeneuve from Gravelbourg to Quebec-a prodigious leap in the hierarchy, for the Archbishop of Quebec (most venerable see in North America) is traditionally made a Cardinal. Untraditionally youthful, Archbishop Villeneuve is regarded as certain to get, at the next papal consistory, the red hat of Quebec's late Felix Raymond Marie Cardinal Rouleau...
...commedia dell'arte, the drama hat set the patterns for Harlequin, Columbine, Pierrot and Pantaloon, is a favorite subject for romantic poets, water color painters, and lecturers on The Drama. They are apt to forget that there exists in the U. S. a lusty native parallel of the commedia to teach esthetes what a real old Harlequinade was like: the Burlesque Show. Like the commedia before the days of the great Debureau, Burlesque is vulgar entertainment catering to the masses, often frankly obscene. Like the commedia, Burlesque is based on "bits" that have been handed down from one troupe...