Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enter Fulbright. Last spring she bought a new straw hat and headed back to her home town of Jonesboro for her third try. But this time she faced four opponents, among them Congressman James William Fulbright, who is young (39), well-educated (a Rhodes scholar, he was president of the University of Arkansas from 1939 to 1941), handsome, well-to-do and as friendly as an Arkansas hound pup. Two years ago Bill Fulbright shook hands into Congress by "visiting" with practically everybody in a ten-county Ozark mountain district...
...band of infuriated housewives should force Mr. Dalton [Hugh Dalton, Board of Trade president, clothing rationing boss and hence Minister in charge of corsets] into a utility corset and a pair of the best-fitting utility stockings he can buy. I would add a saucy black felt hat for which he had to pay four guineas [$16.80] and a pair of those ghastly wooden-soled shoes...
...Boston Police Force was needed to retrieve Harold Holbrook's hat from a keepsake-collecting girl in outer Boston. It seems she had passed it on to a sailor friend who had consequently broken off relations. With a frantic appeal to justice and some maneuvering, the police extracted the hat and the incident was kept out of the papers...
...boatload of trippers who were circling Vermont's Neshobe Island, summer hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmate-thereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality...
This group hopes to collect and spend up to $3,000,000, the legal limit. This will be raised by passing the hat and by making appeals in newspaper advertisements. But just to make sure, P.A.C. has passed down word that it expects at least $1 from each C.I.O. member. A slogan already in vogue : "A Buck for Roosevelt." Most of this money will indeed go for the re-election of Franklin Roosevelt, for P.A.C.'s main strength will be thrown into the Fourth Term effort...