Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Duke of Windsor and his Duchess arrived safely in Manhattan-the Duke in a blue suit (and cotton sweater and plaid shirt), the Duchess in what she helpfully described to some 50 welcoming reporters and cameramen as "a blue wool suit with a red wool jersey, a striped silk hat-I guess that's what you call it-with a veil, and a black box calf and alligator handbag." Also a mink stole. But no jewels. (Explained the Duke, whose Duchess got stolen blind back in Britain: "Well, really, there wouldn't be many left to bring...
Dignity & Fun. At his first platform appearance, in St. Louis, the President wore his air of no-politics as jauntily as his iridescent blue tie. Waving his hat and grinning broadly, he clambered down to shake hands with several score welcoming bigwigs, received a huge Danish pastry from a delegation of A.F.L. bakers (with the admonition from a spectator: "That's bad for your figure, Harry...
...ever gets. The best scenes are too much alike, the others never get going. Almost everyone is ostentatiously rude, but almost no one is witty. It's partly, perhaps, because Coward is such an old hand at this kind of thing that he makes it seem old hat...
...clothes were expensive, they were also handsomer and of better quality. The uniform of the last postwar era had been the sack dress and cloche hat of the '20s. The trademarks of 1946 were elegance and variety; anything was in high fashion, so long as it had a splendid look. (One Manhattan store, with perfect justification, used a reproduction of John Singer Sargeant's 1884 Portrait of Madame X as an index to current style.) While the thrill lasted, U.S. women were going to be taken out and admired-if their husbands could find a tuxedo, that...
...administrator in an effort to drag the T.V.A. into the realm of Washington and Tennessee political patronage. Last week, as President Truman named Lilienthal to head the civilian board inheriting the atom problem from the Army, McKellar again squeezed a question of international magnitude into a battered Capital top-hat and planned to fight Senate confirmation of the White House appointment...