Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burned Up. In West Carrollton, Ohio, hecklers at a fire finally got the better of Fire Captain Aufuldish, who jumped up & down on his hat and resigned...
Later that night, cool and resplendent in a crisp straw hat and double-breasted suit, big, grey Arthur Vandenberg ambled contentedly over to the Bellevue-Stratford to congratulate Tom Dewey...
...longer han his two confectionery blonde daughters, and this protracted loyalty gives Dailey a chance to do some insignificant but pleasant singing and dancing. But finally he too concludes that life with his best girl (Nancy Guild) is preferable to a routine of Indian clubs and straw hat...
...lived at Jane Addams' famed Hull House in Chicago, but his recollections are those of a friendly, casual onlooker instead of the devoted worker he was. He aided all sorts of liberal causes as writer, speaker and organizer, usually with more energy and enthusiasm than his petition-signing, hat-passing colleagues, but this account of his impulsive championship of the underdog reads like a genial assurance that he couldn't say no in a good cause...
Whacky. On its new children's page, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker gave its young readers directions for making "a New Look beanie" from daddy's old felt hat. "With a row of Wallace buttons around the beanie," it exclaimed, "you'll be the best-dressed kid in school . . . Anything goes on a beanie, and the whackier the better...