Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most of you at some time or other have amused your civilian friends by telling them that there are always two ways of doing a thing-the right way and the Army way. Unfortunately this may be true in many cases, but the brass hats are trying in their muddling way to find the right way. During every campaign there are observers snooping around trying to find out what is wrong-what works-and why. They talk" with privates, corporals and sergeants, who cuss about this & that, but quite often come up with a suggestion which even a brass hat...
This was only baring the incisors. WLB's molars, as everybody knew, would get their big test on John L. Lewis. This week old John L., his outsize hat in hand, appeared before WLB for the second time within a month. Reason: Pennsylvania anthracite operators had asked for a reopening of contract negotiations. Said the union, in a circular to its members: "The best way to cooperate ... is to continue to maintain maximum production of anthracite coal to meet the war and consumer needs of the nation...
Women remember the late Eugenie Montijo as a certain Empress of France who wore a tilted wren's-nest hat which achieved a brief renascence...
Other Peterson eye-gogglers : making a silver dollar leap from the cushion-top into a hat; putting the balls through a game of leapfrog all over the table; making a ball jump off the table, roll about on the floor, bounce back on the table. Peterson is the performer who has made the fabulous "impossible shot" possible. The cue ball and two object balls are jammed together in the corner jaw. A brilliantly executed force masse puts such heavy "English"* (spinning motion) on the cue ball that it clears a path, spins to the side rail, reverses back...
Funniest: A credit man who had bat tled C.A.C., came to it dolefully one day, hat in hand. His own affairs were a mess...