Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embarrassingly grateful. They showered the most lavish hospitality on us and produced something very like a slap-up Chinese feast out of army rations dropped from the air and from the produce of the savage hillmen's gardens. They are wonderful people, the Chinese. I take off my hat to them every time. Now I'm down with malaria and am having a few days' rest. When this work's over I'm looking forward to seeing you and China again...
Beau Jack is not only a flashy fighter but a flashy dresser. His favorite costume consists of a yellow-checked coat, peg-top pants, green porkpie hat, purple tie, yellow shoes. He dislikes Harlem: too noisy. But he can't stay away from Broadway shooting galleries. He gets $3 a week for spending money, shoots most of it away. Girls he shuns because the syndicate warned him they would prevent him from becoming a champ...
...famed gyms in Philadelphia and Manhattan. Unknown in the U.S., he went to the British Isles in 1900, knocked out the British heavyweight and middleweight champs, came home in 1902 with a mighty reputation, a small fortune, 18 trunks, 72 sets of red-and-blue silk underwear, a top hat, frock coat, and a rococo vocabulary. He won the light-heavyweight championship from Bob Fitzsimmons, who was 44 at the time, and hit him only once in 13 rounds. O'Brien batted 21-year-old Middleweight Stanley Ketchel around for eight rounds in 1909, when O'Brien...
...Leland M. Ford, Democrat Rogers made only one recorded speech, which was broadcast four times. While in the Army, he continued to write a column for his paper. Excerpt from last week's: "The first time I cranked and fired the 75 ... I couldn't hit my hat. Cranking the blooming thing is like patting your head and rubbing your stomach. ... But after a little practice I got better ... at the finish hit 10 out Of 10 - a feat I would have announced as impossible...
...colored. Actually he is slim, slick, pallid Sidney Torin, 33, brought up in Brooklyn's slums. For a year Symphony Sid lived in Harlem, acquired a full knowledge of Negro speech and habits. Today he even dresses like many Negroes, wears peg trousers (modified), a flat porkpie hat with a wide brim, knee-length camel's-hair coat, suede shoes...