Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They were well-dressed businessmen, overalled city workers, shoeshine boys, campesinos, Indians from the high sierra. Behind the man with the eggs, Santiago Sánchez walked with arms outstretched, like Christ's on the cross. Indalecio Gómez Romero carried his shoes in one hand, his hat in the other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with head bowed. He intended to ask forgiveness for being drunk in a cantina when his wife died unattended at home. Alfonso Noriega...
...Connecticut hills. A few suntanned hikers, from the old Appalachian Trail near by, had left their knapsacks at the door. The old regulars missed a familiar sight: a limousine pulling up in front just before concert time, and a tall (6 ft. 1 in.) woman with a flower-garden hat and a look of the '90s about her clothes, stepping out on the arm of a friend. At 84, almost deaf and barely able to walk, Patroness Coolidge was too tired to go that far for a concert (although she did get to one nearer home, in Pittsfield, Mass...
...hat that catches rain (U.S. patent No. 2,443,848, issued to Barbara S. Boeringer of Minneapolis). When it starts raining, the wearer takes off his hat, turns it inside out, and attaches a collecting bottle to a spout in the crown...
Back in 1917, Frank C. Goodman was one of New York City's top bookies. He cleared $25,000 a year from horse players, employed a large staff, operated seven hat stores in New York and Brooklyn as blinds for his bookmaking headquarters. One spring day, "just out of curiosity," he dropped into the New York City Tabernacle to hear the preaching of Evangelist Billy Sunday. That was the end of Gambler Goodman...
...Hat check girl Dorothy Lawlor made headlines recently when she: 1. Jumped off Brooklyn Bridge...