Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things: of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax--and of how John Huntington has taken off his straw hat and put on his Easter bonnet, and made the change very successfully. "Alice in Wonderland" is, as always, very pleasant nonsense...
...sensational model was the "Merry Widow'': a sophisticated cocktail dress in heavy black crepe, with a short clinging skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, president of the Moslem League, wore an English-style hat, a smartly-cut lounge suit. Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana, Premier of the Punjab and spearhead of India's war effort, was dashing in a snow-white, plumed turban. Tara Singh, leader of the warlike Sikhs, was resplendent in a bright blue turban. He carried a kirpan (carved Sikh sword...
Summer weather and human nature presumably had something to do with the national display of legs and skin. But the effect on U.S. and British troops was exactly what the Field Marshal feared. "If you leave your hat on, and don't smile," said G.I.s, "it's not fraternization...
Middle-of-the-Road Man. The grave situation fell hardest on Premier Parri. But at 55, the tall, stooped man with the lined face, baggy clothes, big hat and high, intellectual forehead was used to hard knocks. He had fought through World War I (four wounds, four decorations). He had fought against Fascism, as a journalist and organizer of the Actionist underground. In World War II he had fought the Germans as vice commandant of the northern partisans. A middle-of-the-road man, he had been chosen as the compromise leader of a compromise Cabinet...