Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wide and leaf-green he opened like doors to see his high-up tawny pants and his pants he smoothed downward from the points of his collar, and he wore a luminous baby-pink satin shirt. At the end, he reached gently above his wide platter-shaped round hat, the color of a plum, and one finger touched at the feather, emerald green, blowing in the spring winds...
...best dancers since Nijinsky, Fred Astaire should have had more dances to do. In The Sky's the Limit he has only three, none of which suggests the fact, nimbly demonstrated in shows like Top Hat, that Astaire's dancing at its best can be a pure, heart-lifting delight. His latest partner, Joan Leslie, imparts the double impression in their dance numbers that she is hanging onto his thumb and that she is doing remarkably well in view of the fact that she is not Fred Astaire. At less strenuous moments Cinemactress Leslie is so nice...
Lawyer Tutt, the ramshackle figure in a rusty frock coat, stovepipe hat, stand-up collar and string bow tie, the canny mind that slyly wrenches law into justice, first came to public attention in a story written by Arthur Train in the Satevepost of June 7, 1919. Illustrating the story was a drawing of Tutt by Arthur William Brown (for which Frank Wilson, a retired actor, posed...
Evidence from Ottawa. Out of his political hat Prime Minister Mackenzie King pulled something new to Canadians and the rest of the world: a foreign policy for Canada...
This week, unable longer to cope with mail, phone calls and visitors seeking the great designer, Editor Cousins made a clean breast of it. Said he: "If the incident results in a single hat that looks like a hat, Old Gus will not have died or lied in vain...