Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where You Hang Your Hat. In Kansas City, police finally took a total stranger off Lee Thomas' hands. Thomas had waked at 2 a.m., found the stranger snoring thunderously in the living room, kicked him out, next found him snoring in the Thomas...
...Agriculture Department came a fistful of figures that should have knocked Congressional farm-bloc arguments into a cocked hat. The statistics proved one point: U.S. farmers collectively are more prosperous than ever before. But to Georgia's Representative Stephen Pace and other farm-bloc members, it is not enough that...
Captain Oliver Lyttelton, British Minister of Production, merely said, as he prepared to return to London, that he had taken from the White House "a more complete agreement" on production and Lend-Lease. Actually, the new understanding meant that U.S. strategy, which had been knocked into a cocked hat at Pearl Harbor, could now look far into the future...
...gaped at the huge sofas and tables imported from Savannah, were shocked on ringing the bell to hear Mrs. Green's high voice crying "If it's another bill I won't pay it!" At home, Father Green wore a Turkish fez; outside, a silk top hat. Impressed by Bible stories, young Julian tried unsuccessfully to offer up the topper as a burnt sacrifice, using the sewing machine as an altar. Later he managed to sit on the hat in church. "My father . . . uttered a low groan," beat Julian with a walking stick. Nothing worse had happened...
Dick Harding pulled the hat trick for the second game in a row on Saturday, but his scoring achievements were overshadowed by Marc Beebe's feat of finding the net four times in the Crimson's third successive easy victory, with Northeastern going under...