Word: hat
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Money as a Tool. The career started 14 years ago. Eccles, a staunch Mormon, was also a staunch advocate of the theory that money is a tool to be used, not hoarded. As a young man in Mormon frock coat and silk hat, he had proselytized for the Latter-Day Saints along Glasgow's Clydeside. As a Utah enterpriser, he had used the sizable fortune inherited from his pioneer father to build a small empire of sugar, lumber and construction companies, and 28 banks throughout Utah and Idaho...
...Angelo LaSalle of Des Moines, Iowa, was thrown clear, stumbled away from the burning fragments, fell unconscious in the snow. There he was found by Horst Kupski, a onetime Luftwaffe pilot working for an upland French farmer. Kupski wrapped LaSalle in a blanket, removed his own shoes, coat and hat to clothe the American, got him down the mountainside...
...constituency at Dundee: "We want food; we don't want empty promises." Outside, after the speech, a crowd of women gave him a raucous parting boo. There was clearly nothing a gentleman could say, but what a gentleman could do John Strachey did: very courteously, he tipped his hat...
Wrong Number. In Kansas City, Store Clerk Walter Browning listened patiently to a customer's description of a hat that had attracted her in the window, gently broke the news to her: it was a handbag...
...could discover the identify of the six "Med. Fac." members until Harvard Class Day, when they appeared faunting on a lapel a sort of black pen-wiper with white skull-and-crossbones. Some of the antics of the "Med, Facs." become notorious, such as placing a fireman's hat on the head of the solider stop the granite monument on Cambridge Common, which the powers-that-be could not dislodge until the fire department was restore to; by squirted if off! The perpetrator became more famous for this act than for performing (her I am interupted by Dr. Franz...