Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearings, John Lewis had had to reassert the majesty of his person. On Wednesday, when a cameraman tried to take his picture he swung his cane and dented the cameraman's reflector. On Friday, when a bailiff had the temerity to tell him to take off his hat as he stalked back into Judge T. Alan Goldsborough's court after lunch, he simply ignored the fellow. He removed his coat, folded it with exaggerated care. When he was good & ready, he took off his large hairy black hat and sat glaring in front of him, running his tongue...
Diving will be rearranged this year to increase interest in the event. Previously, each diver made four required dives and four voluntary dives; henceforth one of the four required dives will be pulled from a hat. This plus four voluntary dives will constitute the event...
Stiffly, British critics sat in a semicircle and told Disney what was wrong with his movies. "I hope," sniffed a middle-aged lady in a black hat, "that Alice in your future production will speak with a British accent." "I am going to try to find someone with what I would call a good international accent," answered Disney, pacifically. "I just could not persuade poor Mr. Disney," wrote weedy Jympson Harmon in the next day's Evening News, ". . . that we will not stand for our beloved Alice becoming an international character. . . . Let him make a separate sound track...
Temperatures skidded to 25° below at Lethbridge, 23° below at Medicine Hat, 34° below at Penhold, Alberta. Snow fell 5 ft. deep in eastern British Columbia. At Nelson, B.C., plows were trapped in towering drifts. Some 15,000 residents of the Crow's Nest Pass area in the Rockies were isolated for days when snow drifted 12 ft. deep. Coal mines had to shut down. Towns ran short of coal and some were almost out of food...
...when the congressional committee probing surplus property called on Littlejohn to testify, he was expected to announce the sale, a nice feather in WAA's badly battered hat. But what Boss Littlejohn told the committee flabbergasted everyone. Said he: all bids for the Inches were off because "I do not feel that any of them guarantees to the Government what I consider a fair price . . . $113,700,000." Moreover, said he, the Army-Navy Petroleum Board had previously wanted the pipelines used for oil only. Now it would permit either...