Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reference to potential Presidents as reviewed in TIME, Dec. 30: I wish to take my hat off to Harold Stassen, who seemed to be not afraid of admitting his political aspirations nor the formulation of a policy to meet the problems confronting us today. A kick in the pants to those would-be leaders who . . . hide behind an open door until they have sensed public sentiment...
...being read more than ever." Ellery Queen held a contradictory mirror up to Father Knox's words, reassured himself: "Readers get more wary, but writers get more clever." People would always read mysteries, declared Leslie Ford and David Frome in unison. "Monsignor Knox is talking through his hat," cried Rex Stout, "-if he wears a hat...
Byrnes has read little; he lacks the born statesman's personal dignity. The other night at U.N. he pushed and elbowed through the hat-check crowd for 15 minutes, while Bevin and Molotov went out special exits after having their coats brought to them...
...nineties, when hansoms jingled along the streets of London and every City clerk wore a silk hat, John was picking pockets in the Strand. King Edward came to the throne, and motors began to splutter in Piccadilly, and John's hands went on sliding into pockets. He thieved all through the four years of the first world war. Dictators rose to power and maps were altered overnight: but John, white-haired and vener able, was still standing with his itch ing fingers among the noise and bustle of the Strand...
...Cooled (Sept.). In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest Medley begged police to reroute planes that flew low over his house, complained that the wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers...