Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lawd make preacher big an' fat, Sleek an' shiny lak a beaver hat...
...ridden Mahmoud to victory in the Derby at Epsom Downs, England, but by the 44th lineal descendant of the Prophet Mohammed's daughter, Fatima: Aga Sultan Sir Mohammed Shah, His Highness the Aga Khan, Mahmoud's haunchy, paunchy brown-skinned owner, who was still waving his silk hat to show his enthusiasm. To balance his excited hyperbole the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems and owner of what, with the possible exception of the Whitney stables, is the finest string of race horses in the world, promptly followed it with an understatement: "My ambition...
...Wyoming's Big Horn Basin one day last year a young laborer attached to a paleontological expedition from Princeton University dug out a chunk of fine-grained, greenish-grey sandstone. He could see hat this hard matrix contained fossil fragments, but the bones were so small that he tossed it aside. On second thought he picked it up again, handed it to Expedition Leader Glenn Lowell Jepsen. Red-laired, laconic Paleontologist Jepsen recognized at a glance that the fossil might be important. He cut the sandstone into three pieces, sent them to a skilled preparator named Albert Thomson...
Last week Mrs. Dibble was ready for the test. At 7 a. m. after breakfasting with her party at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, she climbed to the Valiant's box, clad in an immaculate grey top hat, yellow stock, coaching coat, blue jodhpurs, and red-&-white apron. Her companions included Trainer Walsh. Ernest K. Fownes, veteran of the 1910 run, and Chairman Gustavus Town Kirby of the U. S. Olympic Horse Show Committee who. as official timer, carried six watches. A minister blessed the equipage. At the brake, Eddie Dugan, resplendent in scarlet coat, tootled a few notes...
...public. Though Adman Barton has not definitely accepted the National Republican Committee's invitation, he got in some practice last week at a Chicago meeting of the Illinois Manufacturers' Association. Suggesting that businessmen get busy in the politicians' own backyard, he took off his hat, as one master salesman to another, to Franklin D. Roosevelt...