Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horrified keepers and police learned the unbelievable truth. Chang had devoured a young woman; he had swallowed her clothes, her hat, and even her large handbag...
Their leader, Leonard de Paur, 34, is a stocky, scholarly looking Negro who, at 18, toured Loew's circuit clutching a battered straw hat and singing Ol' Man River. A friend introduced him to Hall Johnson, who had just scored his Green Pastures success. De Paur got most of his choral training as a singer and assistant conductor of the Hall Johnson Choir before...
Instead of spending a tin-horn-paper-hat New Year's Eve, delegates held a midnight communion service-perhaps the largest in Methodist history-at which 10,900 tiny paper cups of grape juice and pieces of bread were distributed. Later boys & girls signed "Dedication Cards," on which they could check off any number of twelve "decisions for Christ" printed on the back. Sample: "I will choose my lifework, not for personal profit, but in accordance with . . . God's will...
This prosperity did not cover everything. The private plane industry flew through an overcast of bankruptcies; most prefabricated housing still remained in the box. The airlines dropped an estimated $13 million in the most disastrous year they ever had, and the big plane companics sat, hat in hand, in Washington, pleading with the Government to save their industry...
...vaudeville team, Paramount's Gold Dust twins stage a hoary entangled-arms routine which, unfortunately, stayed behind when Wheeler and Woolsey left Hollywood by popular request around 1935. And when they combine forces with a trio of Latin musicians for a five-man hat-mixup act, the result is probably the unfunniest three minutes in film history, not excepting the newsreel shots of Pearl Harbor...