Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much right to the title. As he arrived in Washington, a tall, strapping figure in a blue suit, white shirt, blue necktie and grey homburg hat, he could have passed for an exceptionally handsome and well-dressed citizen of the U.S., or any other American republic. But he is something of which the U.S. knows little: a cultured man of the world who is almost entirely of Indian blood, a man who, on the one hand, was educated at the Sorbonne; on the other, has ridden through Mexico's barren hills with Pancho Villa's guerrillas...
...week's end most of the correspondents, well schooled in home-is-where-you-hang-your-hat, had got themselves settled in two "certain hotels" in the "same city," were scouting around for the most likely action spots...
...fifths of the machining time, bends them into shape on 480-ton presses, maneuvers them on 30-ton jigs like ducks on a spit. As the new assembly lines spring to life, Bud Goodman trots around them so swiftly he seems always to be jumping out from under his hat; he peers at his machinery like a farmer eyeing his land. He knows his men down to their latest babies, his machines to the last oil-point. When he has office visitors, he puts his coat on. He takes it off as soon as they leave...
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 12 sides). For all its old-hat grotesqueness, this underrated masterpiece well deserves the pulsing performance which Rodzinski gives it, also merits a better recording...
Continuing their fast rise to the upper brackets of the loop's standing, the Dormitory team took Lowell's measure with a show of snappy skating and accurate shooting that has featured out-of-house play throughout the current season. Benshimol, leader of the winning drive, pulled the old hat trick and pushed three shots into the Bellboy's net, while Holcomb and Morgan finished the job of subduing the aggresive Lowell squad...