Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every month 850 new boots excitedly arrived in The Bronx to have the symbol of their new responsibility-a Mainbocher-designed hat-clapped on their heads and to buckle down to learning their duty. After six weeks' schooling under the piercing blue eyes of Lieut. Commander Elizabeth Reynard, who once taught English literature at Barnard, they were ready for duty...
...usual assortment of duty. Always his chief contribution was a sense of balance, of pulling the team together. If things were slack, he tightened them. If he took over a taut ship, he loosened it up a little. He got along well with civilians, because he did not brass-hat them...
...have a look at Goldberg, had frothed on the stand at the mention of Goldberg and Surplus Liquidators, Inc. Reading from a report, the Mayor declared that, as an auctioneer, Goldberg was "unethical, tyrannical and unfair . . . and to say the least stupid and arrogant." He was also, grimaced The Hat, a distributor of toilet seats. To punctuate his testimony, Witness LaGuardia had shrilly mimicked an auctioneer's babble, yelling an occasional, gleeful "sold!" But Auctioneer Goldberg, who heard all this and more, too, had stubbornly refused to wilt...
This suggestion, in a Lincoln Day editorial in the undergraduate weekly Flat Hat of Virginia's old (1693) William and Mary College at Williamsburg, led swiftly last week to: 1) the firing of Flat Hat's Editor in Chief, 22-year-old Marilyn Kaemmerle of Jackson, Mich., who wrote the editorial; 2) an administration edict that the paper's remaining editors must choose between faculty censorship and suspension; 3) a spirited mass meeting of W. & M.'s 1,000-odd students protesting infringement of the "sacred principles of freedom of the press" bequeathed by Alumnus Thomas...
...first the students declared staunchly for liberty or death. But after suggestions of possible race riots and loss of state funds by the college, they backed down, agreed that Flat Hat's editors will henceforth consult the faculty on "matters of a doubtful nature...