Word: hat
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Lord Eyelash. There was a time when Eden was known in the chancelleries of Europe as "Lord Eyelash." Women gasped when they saw him. Others considered him merely a handsome man in a black Homburg hat who dashed around on good causes. But Eden dislikes being called the "Beau Brummel of British Politics." His is serious business...
...stepped off a train on to the windswept Philadelphia station platform. His mother and father were there to meet him. So was Ruth Hartley. He could not see the tears in their eyes, but he heard their voices. He laughed when he felt the shape of Ruth's hat pressing against...
Died. Whitney Warren, 78, architect (Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, the Ritz, Biltmore, Vanderbilt, Commodore Hotels, the reconstructed Louvain Library in Belgium), fancy-dressing individualist (he favored a cutaway, blue shirt, white waistcoat, flowing white tie, broad-brimmed hat, cape); in Manhattan. He founded New York's Society of Beaux Arts Architects, originated the famed Beaux Arts Balls. When he had finished reconstructing the Louvain Library he wanted on its balustrade the inscription Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Generosity"), but pacifist groups killed the plan. In 1940 Teuton fury destroyed...
...record with 575 buyers pawing for goods regardless of prices. Sixth Avenue manufacturers reported spring dress, suit and coat orders up 40-200%, talked darkly of allocating production to cut down order-padding. One excited OPA economist predicted to the Millinery Merchandising Executives' Association that retail hat sales this year would hit $250,000,000-more than double last year's total...
...contortions, however, were not enough to convince the correspondent, who roundly denounced the turban as being too loose. Mahindra, his Indian pride affronted, could take small comfort in the fact that he had at least effectively disproved the hatter's fable that "no one wears a hat at Harvard...