Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion, Churchill, the only living commoner in a company whose 31 other members include three queens, two kings, and two ex-kings, got himself rigged out in blue and crimson velvet, topped by a black hat adorned with ostrich feathers...
During the same month the Pudding celebrated its 80th year with a show called '"76," an historical satire hailed as the best show since the war, the Revolutionary War, that in. In town, Catherine Cornell was starring in "The Green Hat" and Ben Hur showed before packed houses...
...with laughter. Said he: "In my opinion, the reason that it was done was just for comparative purposes, just like in a prize fight on television, one of the fighters wears dark trunks and one of the fighters wears light trunks." McCarthy gave Blount a verbal tip of the hat: "I can see why you were selected as an aide to the general...
Johns, riding his campaign road grader hard, pledged a good part of the state's entire road funds to a single Jacksonville highway. Wearing a made-to-order train conductor's uniform, he whooped it up with his "wool-hat boys," sneered at the "silk stockings." He even made an issue of foreign aid ("I think the money should be spent in America, for Americans, and particularly for the old folks"). His demagoguery seemed like a surefire success until last week's voting...
...Pretty Tune. The typewriter's future was obscure in its infancy. Not even Inventor Sholes had faith in it. But Promoter James Densmore. like Sholes a former newspaperman, believed in it "from the topmost corner of my hat to the bottommost head of the nails of my boot heels." He wanted to play Sholes' "literary piano" to the tune of a million dollars...