Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith, in white suit and Panama hat, strutted into the White House one day last week for a 15-minute chat with Franklin Roosevelt on New York politics. The talk was so good that Mr. Smith overstayed his time by 30 minutes. In an anteroom Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and OWI's Elmer Davis cooled their heels until the political talk was over...
Thus Gene Talmadge, opening his campaign for a fourth term, got off to a bad start. He had more than rain to worry about: the loyal crowd of "wool-hat" boys (small farmers) who always turn out to "hear The Man," was smaller than usual; of ten bands invited to add to the din, only the one from Moultrie High School showed up. The Palace Guard hoped this was the fault of gasoline rationing; but they feared that maybe Georgia at last had tired of Talmadge's witch-doctory...
Most of the British were not quick enough in retiring; 25,000 of them holed up in Tobruk for a long siege. Rommel did not take even a day to organize and prepare his assault. He organized it, under his hat, in one evening. The next morning, before the British were ready, his tanks stormed the defenses of Tobruk, cut down to the town and began shooting up shipping in the harbor before the British had even begun to evacuate. Rommel had seen that Tobruk was a difficult town to take in an eight-month siege, would be much easier...
Most of the British were not quick enough in retiring; 25,000 of them holed up in Tobruk for a long siege. Rommel did not take even a day to organize and prepare his assault. He organized it, under his hat, in one evening. The next morning, before the British were ready, his tanks stormed the defenses of Tobruk, cut down to the town and began shooting up shipping in the harbor before the British had even begun to evacuate. Rommel had seen that Tobruk was a difficult town to take in an eight-month siege, would be much easier...
When 50-odd summer-theater operators met in Manhattan this spring and decided to reopen this summer, they decided to gamble against gas rationing. Since then, the Straw Hat Theater has worn out its sweat band from worry, and the printing of A cards has held up the printing of programs...