Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known him when" were pleased but not surprised to see that Harry Truman had not gone high-hat. No one had ever doubted Harry Truman's loyalty to his old friends. It is one of his outstanding characteristics. But some Washington observers were beginning to wonder if some of these loyalties might not prove too big a burden. Some thought they could see a "government by cronies" ahead...
...crowd one woman stood out, a tall blond woman in a grey-green woolen suit with a green alpine hat, woolen stockings, and heavy walking shoes. Despite the pack on her back, she walked erect...
...hero of Bir Hacheim, Commander of the F.F.I, and Military Governor of Paris, waited in stony silence to put the old man under arrest. A Swiss Guard of Honor presented arms. But French troops presented reversed arms (rifle butts upward), a gesture of dishonor. The old Marshal doffed his hat, offered to shake hands with General Koenig. The General stiffly declined. Quietly, in the twilight, Henri Petain boarded a special train for Paris...
...Roosevelt's upstairs study to say goodbye. She thanked them, her voice warm, her face strained. Others came-"Bernie" Baruch, Judge Rosenman, Admiral Leahy. She chatted with each one, then went back to her "thank you" notes. In the early evening, she put on her coat and hat. In the White House rooms past which she walked, the outlines of vanished pictures showed on bare walls...
...gaudy, rustic-looking eccentric, Ray Sprigle has been wearing a ten-gallon sombrero for 15 years, ever since he went to Arizona to solve a Pittsburgh murder. The ten-gallon hat, a silver-ringed cane, and a fuming corncob pipe are the trademarks of the Post-Gazette's 58-year-old star reporter. To disguise himself for his latest assignment-to expose Pittsburgh's lively black market in meat-he gave up hat and cane, but not his pipe...