Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dock das alles, alles hat sie nicht begehrtl Meaning in American...
George Allison Wilson, 58, Iowa, who moved up from the Governorship by beating Senator Clyde L. Herring (who had the personal blessing of lowan Henry Wallace). A rugged six-footer who likes to fish and to work in his garden, Wilson is an honest but unspectacular politico whose hat has been in one ring or another almost ever since he got out of law school...
...there were great gaps in the nation's picture of the Solomons-some due to the very uncertainty of pitched battle, some to necessary censorship, some to brass-hat fumbling (see p. 61). In their concern, the people hoped for the best, prepared for the worst, gloomed at the sinkings and took courage from their heroes...
...deny a rumor that she had stuffed paper in her shoes because the soles were thinning. But she was not the least bit disturbed by appearing every day in the same hat (cherry red, trimmed with red and green birds' wings) and the same coat (black cloth, with two blue fox furs trailing from the shoulders). She called it her "battle dress...
This is the fourth book* that gives the customers reason to stare hard at Wallace Stevens, famed poetical solipsist who wears the world in his hat. For many years this startling person has spent his normal working hours disguised as a lawyer-employe of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., of which he is vice president. Betweenwhiles Stevens, now aged 63, has kept adding to the bulk and scope of his poetical testament...