Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cold. The President, in overcoat and silk hat, was sustained by a concealed, hip-high support, against which he leaned while still appearing to stand. He sipped coffee often-though he usually avoids the stuff-toasted his feet at a small electric heater installed on the floor. "It got so hot I had to pour one of those paper cups full of coffee on it to put out the fire," Truman said later...
Only twice did the cold creep into Truman's manner. When Georgia's Governor "Hummon" Talmadge rode past, the President pointedly turned his back to talk to a companion. And when South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, doffed his hat in salute, Harry Truman stared him coldly in the eye, his mouth a thin, grim line...
...lawbreaker when he simply wants a job. Dreiser stuttered for a while before he was seven years old. He had a cast in one eye. He was bullied by older boys and overawed by his brother Paul, a successful songwriter (My Gal Sal), with his fur coat, silk hat and smart cane...
Every regular concert goer in Cambridge has seen a big, smiling, blue-eyed, old lady take her seat in the front row at Sanders Theater and, after removing a flowered, hat, spread a pink and blue robe over her knees. She listens to the music with her hearing aid held out in front of her and applauds generously with arms outstretched. If it is a Boston Symphony concert, you will see Koussevitzky come down from the podium to shake hands with her. If she is giving the concert herself, which is probably the case, you will watch...
...legislature held up the inauguration for four hours, threatened to demand a recount of last fall's close election (Bowles won by only 2,285 votes). But the high point of the proceedings was Bowles's rakish appearance in the inaugural parade-he wore a dented grey hat with his cutaway. Said his wife: "Chet has a silk hat somewhere. But he just won't wear...