Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rummaging in the Governor's closet, he appropriated a battered hat, an exclamatory sweater knitted by Vancouver Island Indians. He won a $5 bet from Governor Wallgren that his own suit was the older (it was bought in 1939). He rose early to stroll on the wide lawns, sometimes played the piano before breakfast. Going to the Capitol, he sat down at an organ under the lofty, music-amplifying dome, launched into Beethoven's Minuet in G and the Blackhawk Waltz. Then, with the Governor and Press Secretary Charlie Ross, he sang Peggy O'Neil and Melancholy...
...think it's pretty important to know just why this conference is being held. And if you don't know the purpose of it, don't feel bad, because a lot of adults don't either." His eye sharpened: "I saw an interesting and pretty hat walk into the dress circle today - it turned out to be Hedda Hopper under it." He pontificated : "On the whole, I'd say the conference has done remarkably well." In Boston, Editor Canham, well pleased with his new columnist, suggested that Kenneth could stand a few spelling lessons...
...Bowen, but the U.S. Navy knows him very well indeed. Stocky and bald, the fiery Admiral possesses a quality much rarer than courage in battle: an absolute fearlessness of superior rank when one of his pet projects is involved. His scrappy perseverance is a departmental legend. Over strong brass-hat opposition, he helped browbeat the Navy into adopting new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbines, which have proved invaluable in World War II's ships (TIME, July 12, 1943). He has been officially cited as the spark plug behind the Navy's development of radar. Last fortnight...
...Weekly, Associate Editor Alice Payne Hackett has compiled a record of U.S. literary taste from 1895 to the present. Titles like Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower. (1899), John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant not a British statesman but a U.S. author (no kin) whose historical novels of early America (Richard Carvel, The Crisis, etc.) were best...
Oxford was the next stop. Q lived in Cardinal Newman's old rooms, bathed in His Eminence's old tin bath. He paid the customary Sunday calls on fellow undergraduates in morning dress and top hat. He watched Poet Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet...