Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House phaeton coasted down a ramp to Washington's Navy Yard wharf. The top was down, the bulletproof glass windows up. On the back seat were Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in white linen suit and a Panama hat, Eleanor Roosevelt in white, and handsome, sad-eyed Crown Princess Martha of Norway, in mourning for her cousin-by-marriage, the late Duke of Kent, her severe black dress and hat relieved only by a double strand of gleaming pearls...
...trend did not change. The count gave Talmadge 117,731; whiz-bang young Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, 162,889. Despite the Palace Guard he built up during three terms, despite his rabble-rousing, nigger-hating appeal to Georgia's "wool-hat" boys (small farmers), Gene Talmadge had taken a sound trouncing...
...question like that can cause one of three reactions in a swing critic: insanity, high blood pressure, or a shrug. All this is old hat to the boys in the know, but there comes a time when a would-be swing critic wants to get the subject of Glenn Miller off his chest, once...
...last night that the emergency provision in the Army Enlisted Reserve program that reservists may be called up at any time, would become effective by mid-years. Although no immediate demand for all men in the ERC was threatened, the statement acknowledged that war manpower needs are so great hat every enlisted college man over 20 would be summoned after December...
...spiritual pedigree goes back to Teddy ("King Theodore I") Roosevelt, and there it stops. As a chunky, redheaded youngster of 24 he went to Cuba with Roosevelt and the Rough Riders. He tore his pants ignominiously on barbed wire in his first battle, got a bullet through his hat and a lifelong case of hero worship. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in strong talk and the Big Stick. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believes in the strenuous life; at 68, he adheres to a muscular regimen that would kill many a younger...