Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Mrs. Truman at his side, the President drove a Secret Service convertible coupe along the park's winding roads. Wearing a Panama hat and carrying binoculars, he studied the terrain from Big Round Top and a knoll overlooking the field across which Pickett's Virginians had made their charge. Said Artilleryman Truman: Pickett's men might have broken through with one more push. Then the son of Missouri Confederates added: We may all thank God that they didn't. That would have been the end of the Union...
Glad Hands. In 1911 "Sunny Jim" Rolph sailed into the mayoralty in a ten-gallon hat and polished cowboy boots. He stayed there for 19 years, and in those years the city grew up. Up climbed the buildings. Up climbed industry, shipping, finances, while "Sunny Jim" ran things with a glad hand. When "Sunny Jim" left to become governor, he passed the mayoralty to Florist Angelo Rossi, who sailed into office with a carnation in his lapel...
...July 22, 1943 in prison camp at Medicine Hat, Alta., Sergeant Schwalb and another Afrika Korps man, Private Adolf Kratz, decided that a fellow prisoner, August Plaszek, was an anti-Nazi "swine," apparently because he objected to the ironhanded rule of the prisoners by a Nazi clique. So Schwalb and Kratz hanged Plaszek. They were tried for murder in a civil court, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged...
...same case a third P.O.W., Corporal Johannes Wittinger, was acquitted. For another, unrelated P.O.W. camp killing, a fourth German was convicted and sentenced to hang at Medicine Hat last week, and three other Germans were awaiting trial...
...century's banality? A good many Philadelphians snorted at such forgotten favorites as Munkacsy's Last Day of the Condemned (with a dozen relatives of the shackled prisoner in carefully composed attitudes of curiosity and grief), Thomas Hovenden's Breaking Home Ties (a gloomy, gawky boy, hat in hand, enduring a last, long look from his mother while the menfolk wait to take him to the depot), and John Henry Lorimer's Mariage de Convenance (in which a weeping, heavily veiled bride collapses in her room, deaf to the happy chirps of two little bridesmaids...