Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greek who recently saw him describes Ares thus: "A swarthy face spanned by a handlebar mustache. ... He scorns rank, wears a uniform of which every piece is from a dead enemy. Around his fat waist he carries half a dozen knives. ... On his head he wears a tall black hat which makes him look like one of Napoleon's marshals...
...killer" (Pat. no. 2,026,077), a short rounded club made in two sizes (one for ladies). Chicago's Mrs. Elizabeth ("The Red Network") Dilling, leader of the "Mothers' Crusade" which once sprawled noisily in the halls of the Senate office building, wore a big, rose-trimmed hat and a becoming new dignity...
...delegations which Ohio's Taft acquired in 1940. Some political dopesters now concluded that Warren had everything that was coming to him, that Dewey's running mate will turn out to be John Bricker-who is now the only candidate, Republican or Democratic, who has thrown his hat into the ring and jumped after...
...Sophie Tucker, the Manassa Mauler of her field, shouts a 1½-entendre salute to the boys through a meat-grinder larynx. Dinah Shore, singing I'll Get By over the short waves, soothes the entire planet in generously buttered mush. Ted Lewis talks through his top hat, and everybody who has ever liked Lewis-or John Barrymore -is happy. There are at least a dozen other acts, some of them all right. But they seem like three dozen, and the air gets so thick with self-congratulation that it is hard to see the patriotism...
...house, and moved to Monks House, a long, low, green frame dwelling surrounded by gardens, in Sussex. On March 28, 1941, she wrote a note to Vanessa and one to her husband, took her stick and walked across the Downs to the River Ouse. Later her hat and stick were found on the river bank. On April 2, her husband said: "Mrs. Woolf is presumed to be dead. . . ." At the inquest the coroner read a note by this mistress of English prose: "I have the feeling that I shall go mad and cannot go on any longer in these terrible...