Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particular order are pictured Miss Lise Bourdin, James E. Feinberg '49, and a hat by Carve of Paris. Feinberg was a guard on last year's football team, and Miss Bourdin is designated as Miss "Arch of Triumph." They were brought together under the auspices of Loew's Enterprises...
When the Americans arrived, he stood hat in hand at the entrance of the mine, and in conformity to his instructions handed over the paintings ... to the American authorities...
...Hat. For Monsanto, technological upheavals were an old experience. When roughhewn John Francis Queeny formed the St. Louis company in 1901 (he named it Monsanto after his Spanish-Portuguese wife), it was for the purpose of making saccharin. In rapid succession he branched out into medicines and industrial chemicals and dyes. By 1928, when his son Edgar Monsanto Queeny took over, Monsanto had four plants, was grossing a comfortable $6,150,000 a year...
Meanwhile, at St. James's Theater, Guy Domville had opened brilliantly, but during the second act the audience began to laugh at an elderly actress whose hoop skirt and high plumed hat struck them as ridiculous. Then the producer (and star) made an awkward last-act exit, and the uproar became a thunderstorm...
...habit of stopping in the midst of traffic while he groped painfully for the right word; his conversation, with its "Chinese nests of parentheses" and its sentences that "dropped to the floor and bounced about like tiny rubber balls"; his way of coming into a room, carrying his silk hat, stick and gloves; his reputation as both a wit and a bore ("Nobody bored him," said Violet Hunt, "he took care of that. . ."); his reputation for incomprehensibility ("Poor old James," said George Meredith, "he sets down on paper these mysterious rumblings in his bowels -but who could be expected...