Word: hat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Might as well look through your hat...
...Washington. What danger, if any, had threatened the President during his New York City visit remained a deep secret to Secret Service and police. ¶The same day that the President had his heavily-guarded ride, Mrs. Roosevelt, swinging down Manhattan's Madison Avenue afoot, stopped into the hat shop of Lilly Dache. With ten minutes to spare before keeping an appointment, she tried on four hats, bought two. Said the sales-clerk who knew Mrs. Roosevelt of old: "She is one that either likes a thing or she doesn't. But she has improved in style...
...farm near St. Louis where he raises sheep, turkeys, dogs, ducks. A man of broad humors and skillful hands, he is a proficient amateur magician, a rabid wrestling addict who calls most topflight wrestlers by their first names. He likes to be photographed wearing chaps, boots, spurs, cowboy hat and holster pistol, .although he cannot ride a horse...
With the autocrat's usual contempt for criticism Governor Curley has forced through the appointment of Arthur Baker as judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court. Even a hardy political horse-trader like President Roosevelt should take off his hat to his Boston understudy who has exchanged with a member of his own executive council one of the highest judicial posts in the Commonwealth in return for the failure to vote on an important appointment...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 was ordered to take off his hat in the building, refrain from smoking, and to keep out of the Sanctum. Ten years later another subdued youth, James Bryant Conant '14, was obeying the same orders. Others such as Walter Lippmann '10 remained in the running only a short time...