Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-class international rumpus was in the making last week. The drama had an all-star cast: Franklin Roosevelt, Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, Columnist Drew Pearson, Ambassador William Phillips, and a whole galaxy of silk-hat names cast in minor roles. And the drama had excellent suspense-no one could guess what would happen next...
Marcus Porcius Cato never wore a derby hat. He never chain-smoked cigars or drank a highball. But Cato and Winston Churchill would have understood each other perfectly on one subject: Mediterranean policy. Like the Briton, the Roman understood that the key to the middle of the Middle Sea is the island of Sicily...
These days are trying days for many of the lads as they plod into the highways and byways of the surrounding districts seeking, seeking--ever seeking for an apartment, a room or even a large size closet in which to hang the Coop's hat during our last four months. Some succeed, others...
...Paris cafes in the '303 went on plugging the sentimental melody which she had helped to make No. 1 on the Hit Parade: I'll Be Seeing You (in "all the old familiar places" of Paris, the lyrics imply). Milliner Lilli Dache (whose newest creation is a hat composed of a single pink garter) and Dressmaker Hattie Carnegie announced they would take the first possible boat to Paris. In San Francisco, Department Storekeeper Paul Verdier closed his doors and broke out champagne for his 600 employes. In Hollywood, husky-voiced Tallulah Bankhead, who had vowed not to take...
...once-delayed, well-advertised World Security Conference began this week at stately Dumbarton Oaks, a magnificent 16-acre estate set like a jewel in Washington's Georgetown. The 39 delegates, none in a plug hat, strolled down the old pebble walks, through formal gardens, under Chinese scholar trees, across arched bridges over the carp pond. Promptly at 10:30 a.m. they filed into the pink brick Georgian mansion, past the Byzantine and mediaeval objets d'art, into the high-ceilinged music room. There they arranged themselves around a huge U-shaped table covered with the inevitable blotter pads...