Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many as Can Walk. Captain Harry had said that he wanted as many of them "as can walk" to be his official escort at the inauguration. He wouldn't be able to march along with them. "I'll be wearing a high silk hat and a long-tailed coat," he said, "and I'm not going to march along in that...
...living members of Battery D had taken off. Tommy Murphy was there, jaunty and sharp in a double-breasted grey suit. Eugene Donnelly wore a silk hat. Frank Spina, Harry Truman's Kansas City barber, had a new silk guidon, three times regulation size, inscribed in gold with the names of the places where Battery D had fought: the Vosges Mountains, the Meuse-Argonne, Verdun. Four sleeping cars rolled eastward...
...dapper little man with the straw hat, the walking stick and the boutonniere emerged from Boston's State House, a cheer went up for "the greatest Italian of them all." Charles ("Get-Rich-Quick") Ponzi shrugged off the compliment. "No," he admitted, "Columbus and Marconi were greater. Columbus discovered America, Marconi discovered the wireless." Hysterical voice from the crowd: "But you discovered money...
...cigar stand, bought four of his favorite cigars. As he turned from the stand, he brushed against one Jesús Arias, police chief from the tiny Michoacán town of Vista Hermosa, who was a little the worse for tequila. General Alva's dark green felt hat fell to the floor...
...Flying Boxcars, jet-propelled fighters. Then came the parade with massed flags and flashing-legged columns of infantry, floats, Sousa rhythms of military bands, and, at the tail end, a circus calliope. The sunflash from the headlamps of the motorcycle escort made the TV image blur and throb. The hat-waving crowd cheered, torn paper drifted across the screen, and the cameras caught the 32nd President of the U.S. sipping coffee as the parade rolled...