Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another gin, although Mrs. Hunkle protested she would get "tiddly" and then I walked her home. In her miserable little 90-cent room with its gas fire and no other heat, Mrs. Hunkle took off her atrocious hat and sat down. I didn't, since there was only one chair...
Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston "Pops" Orchestra, announced that he Would soon broadcast for the first time a new suite based on eight 20th Century ''folk tunes." The title: Jingles All the Way, No. 2.* The composer: Canadian Howard Cable. The themes: the Dentyne, Adam Hat, Colgate, Richfield Oil, Super Suds, Chiclets, Pepsodent singing commercials, plus the Mortimer Snerd leitmotiv from the Edgar Bergen show...
With Fred Astaire reputedly dancing for the last time in "Blue Skies," it is particularly pleasant to have one of the middle-thirties vintage of Astaire musicals in town displaying his terpsichorean felicity and his personal case of manner at their characteristic best. That "Top Hat" bases a mounting series of un-excruciating events on a carefully mistaken identity and calls it a story matters little. Astaire and Ginger Rogers are on a Boston screen, and they sing Irving Berlin songs and dance to them, and there isn't slightest him of a neurosis or psychoanalyst in the whole picture...
...Berlin songs are among his best. Although "Dancing Cheek to Cheek" has lasted longest in the popular car, "What A Lovely Day To Get Caught In the Rain" zips along and bounces in up-to-date style, and "Top Hat" itself makes most current production numbers look like minor-leaguers...
Official American terms to indigent nations state that those who want to pass the hat must really need the money, keep a complete accounting of supplies received, must hand out aid to the politically unsavory as well as to the faithful, and finally must keep man-power where Washington thinks it belongs--on the farm, not in the army. Under such conditions approval for relief supplies could conceivably depend on the quality of a secretary's morning cup of coffee. Even the three countries Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson publicly stated would probably need aid--Italy, Austria, and Greece...