Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its elephantine proportions, the double-decked bus was designed for a purely hypothetical race of men with an average weight of 98 pounds and an average height of 5 ft. ½ in. A normal man cannot stand in one without getting his hat knocked off, or assuming a stooped posture, not unlike that of an Oriental criminal awaiting the headsman...
...self-portraits which now & then appeared in Delvaux's canvases looked even more out of place than the nudes; they exhibited the frozen face and faintly old-fashioned garb of a latter-day Buster Keaton, stalking gloomily amidst his dream harem or lifting his hat to a bare-backed girl friend, as in The Meeting...
...Japan, too, the American-language craze had caught everybody from streetcar conductors, who crammed between corners, to the hat-check boy at the swank Dai Ichi Hotel, who couldn't keep his hats straight for studying an English grammar. In Tokyo a standard Oxford Dictionary would get you $33 last week, and two made-in-Japan, slang dictionaries that out-defined the Danish version had topped 40,000 copies apiece...
...president's job. Their latest choice: Allan Sproul, 50, who heads the Federal Reserve Bank of New York but is not the kind of "name" the bank needed. While Sproul (rhymes with owl) was mulling over the offer, another name was dropped in the hat: Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson...
Between the acts, there was a Battle of Bands-two orchestras playing the same tune-one hot, one sweet. The orchestra's idea of le jazz hot was still in the wah-wah, funny-hat stage of the U.S. display bands of 1930. Maestros Alex Combelle and Andrea Leca were things of beauty in black ties and velvet jackets, but Combelle's gum-chewing guitarist wore a sweater with wide green and yellow horizontal stripes...