Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After breakfast the first planned activity, church, was almost three hours away. Harry Truman was happier without a plan. He held an informal reception on the hotel porch, accepted a "Jack Garner" grey hat (7⅜) and plunked it on a reporter's head. He pinned an Eagle badge on a Boy Scout, shook hands with everybody who offered his. In the packed hotel lobby, he moved about, chatting with the easy informality of a veteran convention-goer. No one was awed by the U.S. President. He was still chewing...
Hirohito consented to pose with MacArthur for a Signal Corps picture. Then he and the Supreme Commander talked alone (through an interpreter) for 38 minutes. When he came out, the Emperor saw a cluster of U.S. correspondents, doffed his high hat and just perceptibly bowed...
...tired, bespectacled little man whom the Japanese regard as the Son of Heaven emerged from his walled and moated palace for the first time since the conquerors had landed in his country. He wore a cutaway, striped trousers, a wing collar, a top hat. He climbed into an old but immaculate Daimler. His Imperial Grand Chamberlain sat reverently facing him on a jump seat...
...Play. A warm, cloudless Saturday found the President in sparkling fettle for the weekend's fun. In a light grey suit and soft tan hat he was off from the White House at 8:40 a.m., behind a motorcycle escort. His car companions: Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle, former presidential press secretary Steve Early (now of Pullman Co.), Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder, gabby Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, the President's aide...
...Dodger Augie Galan got tossed for kicking dirt at Umpire Barr (fine: $50). Dixie Walker followed-for flinging his glove in the air in disgust (no fine). In the final game, Brooklyn's hotheaded Ed Stanky had his $50's worth of fun. He threw his hat high in the air after a called third strike, and Umpire Barr again did his duty as he saw it-thereby setting a new record for canning players from consecutive games...