Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cooled. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, Ernest P. Medley begged police to reroute passenger planes that flew low over his house, complained that wind from the propellers often blew off his hat, that the suction pulled off his bedcovers...
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...Sablon, last week's business at Montreal was old hat. Since March, he had kicked up a fuss in Hollywood, New York, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City...
...modest, unpainted four-room house atop a narrow headland overlooking Japan's Ago Bay, a wizened little man in a brown kimono and a black derby hat shuffled about in a pearly haze. He was Kokichi Mikimoto, who has annoyed more oysters for more profit than any other man. Last week the longtime king of Japan's culture-pearl industry declared the largest personal income in Japan in the first year of American occupation. He had netted three million yen ($200,000) selling pearls to the conquerors...
...British religious film interests, he wanted to: 1) persuade a major producer to make the Life of Christ in Technicolor; 2) start producing a picture based on his own novel, The Hand that Drove the Nails (Hession's considered opinion: "It knocks The Robe into a cocked hat"); 3) set up a "liaison office" between church and cinema to "advise" on and promote Protestant films; 4) campaign for Hollywood's struggling little Cathedral Films, which is now making Bible shorts for church & school...