Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouted 9,000 grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight oxen in his honor. "Bring on your enemies," yelled hundreds of Transkei herders in Umtata a few days later, "and we will slaughter them...
Besides the point of view, which is different, if nothing else, there is nothing novel about "Lady in the Lake." The plot is old hat of the most battered variety, involving, in addition to the immersed female who is never fished out for the edification of the audience, a gentleman stone dead in a shower and the hero (you) half dead and half drowned in whiskey in a wrecked automobile. There are moments of suspense, that are given a refreshing new dimension by the point of view, but they fail to save the picture from a dreariness that is enhanced...
...Manhattan, red-haired Renee Carroll, "the best-known hat-check girl in America," celebrated 20 years of profitable (about $200 a week) tip-taking at famed Sardi's Restaurant by tipping the customers. Her tip to each: 25?. Total cost: $50. The most astonished customer: English actor John Gielgud, who recoiled and cried: "Is this the custom here...
...Paper Hat. The bell saved Greenwood. As Big Ben boomed midnight he moved an end to debate and a call to vote. Bedlam broke again. It was almost a minute before he could be heard. Then Tory Sir Gifford Fox raised a parliamentary pinpoint, contended that Greenwood was out of order because his motion was made after, not exactly at, 12 o'clock as procedure stipulates. Sir Gifford himself was hoisted on a point of procedure. He did not have on a hat-and regulations call for a member to be "sitting and covered" when raising a point...
...December, after bouncing out of a well-heated studio into windy Rockefeller Plaza without coat or hat, Toscanini caught a cold. He insisted, despite a fever, on conducting his Sunday broadcast. Against his wishes, a doctor was called, and bundled the Maestro into bed. The doctor made Toscanini cancel his scheduled flight to Milan to open the La Scala opera season. Toscanini is fatalistic about death-he believes he will probably be killed in an accident-and scorns such medical precautions. Says he: "If you don't want to be sick, you don't have to be sick...