Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like Eddie Rickenbacker's famed Hat-in-the-Ring outfit of World War I, and its forefather, the polylingual Lafayette Escadrille, A.V.G. would live as yarns told in bars, in books, in celluloid...
Within three months or less there will be no more new metal ash trays, no metal clothes trees or coat hangers or curtain rods, no metal doormats, hand mirrors, hat racks, picture frames or shoe trees, no more metal wastebaskets or clothes hampers or percolators, mixers, whippers and juicers. There will be no more metal, in short, for a WPB list of 76 classes of adjuncts to easy living...
Uninhibited Bob Hope adores his soldier audience. Monologist and avid ad-libber, he can and does depart from his prepared script at the drop of a hat. His camp followers drop their hats so willingly that they have to be cautioned beforehand to hold down the uproar. It could spoil the timing of jokes like this, which warm a soldier's heart...
General Burns takes over Ordnance in June, when the four-year term of Major General Charles Macon Wesson expires. Under Brass Hat "Bull" Wesson, Army Ordnance had a mottled record. The start of World War II caught it without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece, and with its new soldier's helmet-to replace the neck-exposing World War I helmet-not yet in production. A year ago, most of official Washington still thought that Ordnance was bumbling and boggling, overdue for a shakeup. Since then it has done better, has brought in guns and tanks...
Although it was another generation's children who promised to be good all week if they could see a Chaplin comedy, the bantam tramp with his flapping shoes, battered derby hat, jaunty bamboo cane, absurd black mustache, shabby, defiant clothes, is not dated. The craftsmanship of his effortless performance-the innocent waddle, the peculiar childlike kick, the desperate elegance, the poignant gallantry-is still high comedy...