Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a task one world expect a hand-picked body of experienced instructors, but as far as any competent system of selection is concerned, the names of the Adviser might just as well be pulled out of a hat. The man chosen as a Vice-Presidential candidate in a smoke-filled hotel bedroom has more qualifications for his office than these men. Only one example out of many is the student who, having decided to concentrate in English, went for advice to his Adviser, an amiable young Frenchman with the best if intentions. But as for advising him in English...
...designed to take lean, prissy-looking Fred Astaire out of the gilded surroundings in which he has crooned and capered hitherto and put him before his enraptured public as a man among men. He wears a sailor suit with as much flare as he ever brought to a top hat & tails. He sings in his reedy voice three new Irving Berlin songs and he dances four times: 1) an eccentric fox-trot with knee-flips in a dancehall, where he and Ginger Rogers win the contest; 2) a parody deck drill on a battleship with a sailor chorus; 3) another...
Christy & Co., who displayed as a novelty an antique London Bobby's hat, were disconcerted when their salable goods were disregarded by the Sovereign Salesman. Picking up the antique and striking the counter smartly with it, His Majesty commented: "That would stand a good hefty blow...
...months ago on the Riviera when the aides-de-camp of Edward of Wales noticed at the last moment that he was about to inspect a British warship bareheaded. As this was contrary to Navy rules and tradition, they hastily pressed upon H. R. H. a shapeless white hat which he angrily refused to wear (TIME, Sept...
...events. A few of the Houses are emerging with definite personalities. They collect scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These are the trimmings which make the House. Without them a House is just a place where a student hangs his hat, a dormitory of brick and mortar, characterless and colorless, where no tradition or sentiment can linger long...