Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military advisers. And he gallantly assured American women that the old saws about female curiosity were a canard: "The first people to look up from their work were the men-and not the women. It was chiefly the men who were arguing whether that fellow in the straw hat was really the President...
Representatives of British labor pleaded for days, urging an understanding between the A.F. of L. and Soviet workers similar tot hat in the British-Soviet labor entente. But the rulers of the American Federation acted as though it were beneath their dignity to agree to such collaboration...
Cardinal MacRory is a graduate of Maynooth, famed Irish seminary which has sent priests all over the world. He taught there for 26 years before becoming a bishop in 1915. In 1928 he was appointed to St. Patrick's see, got his red hat in 1929. A sharp-tongued Irishman who never minces his words, the Cardinal has positive dislikes-among them, Protestantism ("the Protestant Church here and elsewhere is no part of the Church which Christ founded") and modern civilization (which "increases the opportunity...
...attention while Douglas MacArthur puts the Stars & Stripes back up there. . . . And . . . Sessue . . . that music you're hearing is our theme, the old Star-Spangled Banner . . . you remember that . . . and when it gets to the 'Oh say can you see' part . . . Sessue . . . you take off your hat and brush a tear from your eye . . . whether you've got one there or not . . . because you're sorry . . . Sessue . . . sorry you're a Jap. Then we fade...
...flying red horse (Mobilgas), fireman's hat (Texaco), sea shell (Shell Petroleum) and other symbols of pre-war preferences in gasolines may still swing in the wind, but the pumps under the signs are soon likely to squirt only one kind and color. Last week WPB empowered the Petroleum Coordinator to pool gasoline distribution, which will probably mean mixed brands and minimum standards, with only the "regular" grade available. Even this will not be so regular as before: octane ratings were cut to around 74 last February; henceforth, according to one industry guess, they will run about...