Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jack reached for his well-worn hat, suggested a "walk-about." They walked all afternoon, coming to the Esplanade beside the leisurely, looping Swan River at sunset. Said thoughtful Jack Curtin: "Vance, you should have said where past history is written. This is where history is going to be written. Why don't you stay and help write it? Australia's big, Vance, not England. There's room to breathe here, to grow, to live...
Through blackout curtains the voice of Big Ben boomed eleven, midnight, one, two as the pair talked on to an understanding. Then Eden went home, his black Homburg hat riding his grey-brown head as rakishly as ever. Correspondents who had reported his resignation on Churchill's desk reported it off again. Eden would stay as Foreign Secretary-for awhile...
...desk, but at a big table, writing longhand clearly in a remarkably concise style. Said he: "I learned not to waste words when I worked in Brown, Shipley; in those days a short telegram often meant the difference between profit & loss." He always wore a soft felt hat at a rakish angle; usually traveled by subway with his ticket stuck in his hatband. He played the piano gently, walked a lot, carpentered very well. He is devoted to the gardens of his London house, Thorpe Lodge, where he occasionally gives long lectures to his servants...
...relaxing substance (whose presence was proved by its effect on guinea pigs) in the corpus luteum (a yellow mass in the ovary) and in the placenta of various animals. But he had failed to determine its chemical composition. And his theory seemed to be knocked into a cocked hat when several European investigators succeeded in relaxing animals with injections of the well-known ovarian hormones, estrogen and progesterone...
Manhattan Publisher William Warder Norton rarely wears a hat, rarely publishes fiction. He wants books which will win scholarly praise. In Lancelot Hogben's Mathematics for the Million he had a best-seller (200,000 copies) which won the praise of such mathematicians as Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell. Last fortnight he published a Hogben-edited book which is equally scholarly and fit for laymen. It seeks to explain the evolution, anatomy, functioning, diseases and future of language...