Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Letters [TIME, May 1] you give us excerpts of seven assorted lamentations over the explosion in Wisconsin which blew Wendell L. Willkie's hat out of the ring. Would you have us believe that the opinion of your readers is unanimous that Wisconsin voters were dead wrong and Mr. Willkie is dead right...
...Cigars and talking about the Percentages of the League Teams." Before World War I thousands quoted the fable of the two sisters, upright Louella whose "Features did not seem to know the value of Team Work" and Mae, "short on Intelligence but long on Shape." Louella worked in a hat factory, and every Saturday night the-boss "crowded three dollars on her." Beautiful Mae married a wheat speculator, moved into a Sarcophagus on the Boulevard, hired Louella for $5 as Assistant Cook. (Moral: Industry and Perseverance bring a sure Reward...
...level that she is now ready to make use of the earliest opportunity to deal the enemy troops a decisive blow and frustrate all enemy efforts." Tokyo commentators added: "The day for a large-scale Japanese campaign is drawing close." As Tojo well knew, he was talking through his hat: he had about as much chance of deciding when the big events would come as Hitler had of deciding D-day in western Europe. He could only guess where the next big blow would fall...
Three days before the filing deadline for Texas' primary elections, 42-year-old Martin Dies threw in the towel instead of his hat...
...slept comfortably a few nights in a Noumea hut "between sheets that had covered some well-known newspapermen," and moved up with his wrangling colleagues of the press to watch the New Georgia show. Everywhere he went he was troubled by his name, which fitted him like an outsize hat. "Say, are there three of you guys from TIME aboard, or what?" asked a puzzled yeoman who saw his papers on one ship. "I got a Duncan, a Norton and a Taylor...