Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke for more than five hours. He wanted Krug fired. "Our people," he said, "are tired of working in Krug's slaughterhouses." Krug was guilty of "criminal negligence." He spoke with rumbling irony of Krug, "the Hercules with the size twelve shoe and the size five hat...
...country's telephone workers pulled the plug on the nation's long-distance calls this week. Labor Secretary Schwellenbach had called a last-minute conference of union and company officials. Union Attorney Henry Mayer cracked: "Mr. Schwellenbach thinks he pulled a rabbit out of the hat last year [when he settled a strike within a half-hour of the deadline]. He doesn't realize he is struggling with a horse this year...
...toward the shaft, finally saw hat lamps glowing in the choking gloom, heard men's voices. Slowly, fumblingly, the men divided up, began feeling their way back down the tunnel. When they reached the entrance to a drift called Main West they knew what had happened. Somewhere, far down Main West's four-mile bore, gas or coal dust had exploded, like powder going off in a gun barrel. And almost all of the mine's 142-man day shift was inside. Retching and staggering, some of the explorers tried to get in. One of them dropped...
...considerable portion of the prewar fleet of ancient jalopies was still on its wheels and able to backfire. But the flivver and all its appurtenances was growing unfashionable-the fox tail, which once flew from every steaming radiator, was now as old-hat as the coonskin...
...complete the mess by marrying a gaunt Sunday-school teacher. "Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...