Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty herself wore pink. Her dress was studded with sequins; her hat was large and sprouted six ostrich plumes. A young gallant brought his mother over to see her. "I've always wanted to meet you," said the young gallant's mother. "My father, who was Barney Baruch's younger brother, was madly in love with you when you were on the stage." Piped young Talbot: "That's nothing. My grandfather had a crush on you, too." Replied Betty: "I remember him well. He and I were having a beer at Delmonico's the night...
Severe spells require the promise of a new hat...
...farmer vote, sponsored the British food contracts with their long-term price guarantees. He sometimes dictates 60 letters a day, most of them four-page crunchers well larded with facts. A staunch United Churchman, who neither smokes nor drinks, he makes a speech at the drop of a hat, at political meetings, church suppers or almost any other gathering that wants to listen. He gets about, spends half his time away from Ottawa on the hustings; last week he was mending fences in Saskatchewan. He has the closest thing to a personal political machine in Canada...
...still straight as a pine, chatted about the good old days: "There aren't many oldtimers like me left any more . . . You know, I used to know old Dan McGrew. He was a big hulking fellow. He'd shoot a man at the drop of a hat. I remember the night he got it. Lou ["the lady known as"] wasn't expecting to get shot but she got over it. Last I heard she was running a rooming house up in Prince Rupert...
Garst is as methodical as a metronome, and as unexcitable. City-room staffers clock him in every day: hanging up his hat & coat at 5:20 p.m., putting them on again at exactly 12:05 a.m. Some times during the evening he looks up, summons one cf the city-room waiters and orders a sandwich and glass of milk from the cafeteria. Reporters like the way Garst seeks their judgment on a story's value (Garst: "How much space do you want to give it?"), respect the quick but never superficial reading he gives their copy, admire his calm...