Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house outfit, which is first becoming the dark-horse contender of the season, roundly walloped the Funsters. Benshimol pulled the hat trick, chalking up three markers for the victors, while White and Wilson managed to make the lone scores for the losers...
...with Japanese bodies, in some places three deep. But at least one was still alive. He suddenly popped out of a foxhole 40 yards away and fired two quick shots that passed harmlessly over us. The target was possibly a fighter from Texas who was wearing a 10-gallon hat and looked like an important person. An American soldier coolly drew the firing pins from two grenades and tossed them accurately into the Japanese foxhole and then walked over and fired several rounds of his tommygun to make sure...
...contrast to his smart, facile son Jonathan, wrinkled old Editor Daniels, in his black planter's hat and elder-statesman tie, was a figure who easily evoked oldtime reminiscences. A full-fledged editor at 18, he had tangled in many a garrulous crusade against North Carolina railroads, tobacco and power companies. Great pal of William Jennings Bryan (of whom he wrote an 8,000-word obituary in six hours) and a hard-shelled Dry, he banned liquor on Navy ships...
...only did Stuckey go the hat trick one better, but all four of his goals were unassisted, and two of them, coming in the game's last four minutes, entirely changed the complexion of a previously evenly matched contest...
...lobby. Those who hit luck without losing their gains too fast to the horses or to other promoters become "heels," paying perhaps $10 a month for a cubicle on the third floor. The renting agent, Morty Ormont (French for Goldberg), knows a heel is out of business when his hat is gone. The luckiest of the heels move upstairs and become "tenants"; but sooner or later, tenants turn up in the lobby booths as Indians again. Some leading Jollity Building denizens...