Word: hat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope Diamond. Ed Crump did not ignore them. As he rode on casual journeys through his domain he watched the pavements as sharply as a kingfisher hunting shiners; his pink face lighted at the first sign of recognition. If people turned, he snatched a wide-brimmed grey hat from his ear-long white locks, nodded majestically as if thousands cheered, and cranked down the car window with incredible dexterity to bawl, "Hiya...
...stand to tell exactly how the huge job of cheating had been done. Said he: Longchamps kept two sets of books, juggled one set by understating sales and overstating purchases, used the faked figures in filing 1940-44 tax returns, siphoned the money, along with tips taken from hat-check girls, into a safety deposit...
...Slow? The most dramatic case was that of France, whose Communist Party had been vastly aided by France's hunger, discouragement and national humiliation. The U.S. had deepened all three of these factors by keeping the French waiting, hat in hand, for a loan. Last week, after the French voters had rejected the Communist-sponsored Constitution, special emissary Leon Blum, who had been cajoling U.S. officials for eight weeks, found his path easier. Washington woke up to the fact that, France might be saved for the world the U.S. hoped to build. At week's end the Export...
Bernard Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, flew into New York for a fortnight's U.S. visit, was greeted by i) Francis Cardinal Spellman, 2) newsmen, who goggled at the visitor's British version (bowl-on-a-platter-style) Roman hat. Cardinal Spellman brightly declared that he would buy Cardinal Griffin a new one, U.S. style, later informed the press: "The matter has already been taken care...
...burst of silence, he heard Justice John McGeehan sum up his attributes: "One sees the rakish leer in his eye and gathers that he has a wayward wit. . . . He is engaged in a business that is mostly ballyhoo." Few people remember that the man in the iron hat managed five world champions...