Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went back to St. Paul's as a teacher: a bachelor whose arms always seemed to be coming out of his sleeves, who groped painfully for the right word, hooked his hands in his pants-top like a Midwestern farmer, always looked funny in a hat, lived in a single room so littered with books that there was no place to sit. When he talked to his classes, in a soft, throaty whisper, he was hard to hear, sometimes hard to understand...
...Army took a big piece of brass out of its hat last week. President Roosevelt ordered the most sweeping reorganization in the War Department's history. An organization hitherto as strangely assembled as Topsy's hair was streamlined to bullet-shape. Out the window went bottlenecks, bureaus and bric-a-brac -and the fusty old general staff setup. All old sections were packed into three new ones: Air Force, Ground Force and Supply. On top remains Chief of Staff George C. Marshall...
Picking a ship, according to the Admiral, is like buying a hat. (In Navy slang, tentative ship designs are known as "spring styles.") Before the Navy decided on any one type of ship, the Bureau of Ships whipped up as many as ten different designs. After six or eight months of blueprint work, the designs were sent to the General Board, which eventually notified the Bureau what it fancied. The time between contract plans and working plans used to be from 15 to 18 months. Under Robinson, the time was cut to less than a year. Ably assisting...
...year-old frame farmhouse, tall, strapping Ralph Delair crawled out of bed at 5:30, pulled on long underwear, two heavy shirts, ankle-high shoes, blue denim overalls, two sweaters, a thick mackinaw, a battered felt hat. He started a roaring wood fire in the nickel-plated kitchen range, touched a match to ash and hackberry logs in the living-room fireplace...
...also settled down (as writer, assistant producer, etc.) to learn the business. He once had a derby-hatted wooden Oscar made for himself, with the inscription: "In honor of Nunnally Johnson [astute producer and Hempstead crony] and David Hempstead, who are exactly 22½ years ahead of their time." Says he: "Oscar is to remind me I'm good; the derby hat to keep me from getting swell-headed about...