Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RendÓn meets nightly with his rapidly increasing following in the Café Paris campaign headquarters, enthusiastically talks politics, even more enthusiastically passes the hat for the "campaign fund." The "fund" provides a better living than RendÓn's pick-me-ups as palm-reader, indifferent painter and author of paid panegyrics for real politicos. (He has gained eight pounds since his nomination...
...palace which was Lobengula's only monument stands one of the many statues of Rhodes, staring toward the north ("My hinterland," he called it). Kruger's frock-coated figure stands in dry, hot Pretoria: at his wife's request, the sculptor has left his top hat hollow, so that it will collect rain for the birds...
Princess Elizabeth, sporting the most becoming hat photographers have yet caught her in (see cut), visited a Sussex nursery for "blitzed babies," gathered up a six-months-old to pose for the most grown-up picture of her 19 years...
...summer students.* Behind its stately facade, soft-voiced, bespectacled Executive Director Arnold Shaw of the Schillinger Society gave the first Schillinger lecture in an American music school. His objective: to prepare 35 music teachers and students for 1950, when Schillingerites predict that orthodox composers will be old-hat and "pure music" will be created by music engineers on machines (like the Rhythmicon invented by Schillinger...
...burly "Cap" Krug was talking about dollar value for goods and services, his blurb was sound. But if he was talking about quality (e.g., of men's shirts, clothing), he was talking through his hat: 1944 would go down in history as a pinch year, no matter how much money civilians spent. Nevertheless, in 1944 U.S. industry had performed prodigies...