Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light of her imminent retirement, political pundits began to reappraise the career of this small, plumpish woman who, in her unfashionable tricorn hat, has long bustled in & out of Administration councils. Most surprising opinion came from the Baltimore Sun's bitterly anti-New Deal Columnist Frank Kent. He wrote: "Far from being the worst Secretary of Labor we have had, good argument can be made that Miss Perkins is the best...
...world-known dramatic team, Sothern (E.H.) & Marlowe, appeared publicly for the second time since her husband's death (1933), to open an exhibit of scripts, promptbooks, costumes, other souvenirs,* at the Museum of the City of New York. Clad in black, wearing a black velvet hat modeled after the one she wore as Portia in an 1887 production of The Merchant of Venice, Miss Marlowe read a poem (in a strong, full, ringing contralto) written by her husband, replied, when asked what she thought-of the modern theater, "I wonder if what I think matters...
...Louis made for open water so fast that, as one junior officer described it: "We didn't have a bone in our teeth-we were foaming at the mouth." Captain Charles E. Reordan fought his ship, the Tennessee, while wearing civvies and a straw hat...
...late John Barrymore believed there was only one weapon with which a man could successfully fight a woman-his hat. "Grab it," the Great Profile advised, "and run." Last week, confronted by a spreading strike of telephone switchboard operators, the U.S. knew just what he was talking about. For seven days the nation waited to see if the war's most puzzling domestic problem could be settled that simply. The strike's potentialities were paralyzing. But the women who were picketing the telephone companies were the Good Girls of U.S. industry-the heroines who had stuck by their...
Poor Marie found it hard going. At the wedding, her husband refused to let the best man tear off the bride's garters and wear them in his hat-"a rude and nasty custom," he barked. At meals he propped a book against the saltcellar, read gloomily. Marie used to hear his Latin pupils screeching as he beat them (if they failed to screech in grammatical Latin, he beat them again). Marie had beautiful hair, but Husband Milton was entirely too occupied combing his own long locks to notice hers...