Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orly Airfield the temperature stood at 90° when Argentina's touring First Lady, dazzling in a white suit, white shoes, white handbag and a big white cartwheel hat, stepped out of a DC-4. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault came forward, bowed, kissed her hand. "On behalf of France," said he, "I welcome you warmly and affectionately." Then a motorcade whisked la belle blonde, as Parisians called her, to the Ritz...
Suspended from the ceiling of the basilica, high above the Archbishop's head, were the red hats of his four immediate predecessors as archbishop of Quebec, the late Cardinals Taschereau, Bégin, Rouleau and Villeneuve. Quebeckers felt sure that some day soon their new archbishop would receive the red hat himself...
...Adam suspected there might be a reason: "The standards which the BBC . . . has established in news may have something to do with this 'lingering pain'. It is enough that the pitch by the village dump is being disputed . . . that another medicine man has arrived . . . that his top hat and his line of talk are glossier, and that he nips in before those who have been there many a year, man and boy, have their samples unpacked...
With his fierce handlebar mustache, his broad-brimmed hat and black cape, Alfredo Palacios, the "grand old man" of Argentina's Socialist Party, resembles a character out of an 1890 melodrama. Like those 1890 heroes, he emphasizes honor. And in a long political life filled with battles for university reform, rights for women, legalized divorce, many are the duels he has fought to defend...
From that day on, Walter Greaves and his brother Harry followed Whistler wherever he went. Strutting, dandyish Whistler was glad to have them follow. The brothers affected bis flat, wide-brimmed black hat and yellow tie. They even signed his invitations with meticulous copies of the famous Whistler signature: a butterfly with a sting in its tail. Sitting on either side of their hero at a life class, they seldom looked at the model; their eyes were fixed on the Master's drawing. Sometimes Whistler would roll a cigaret and smoke it; the Greaves brothers solemnly copied him, puff...