Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wore horn-rimmed glasses, worked somewhere as a trucking clerk, liked to take photographs of Netting Hill kiddies in the streets and Notting Hill chippies in their bareskins. "Always so polite and neatly dressed," said Mrs. Rose Bangle. ". . . Never passed a lady in the street without raising his hat." Checking back, the police found that John Christie had been the principal government witness in the case of his tenant-predecessor Tim Evans; near the end of his trial, in fact, Tim had recanted his confession and insisted that John Christie had committed the murders...
Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, who grinningly told reporters that some "goddam statesman" had stolen his hat during a White House conference, had to say that it was all a mistake. He had found his hat at home. However, news of the incident netted him seven new hats from sympathizers, and next time he was going to report that his shoes were missing. Said he: "I wear size...
Since he felt that "an artist must also be a personality," he fashioned a personality of his own. He let his hair grow down over his ears, wore a gates-ajar collar, a flowing tie, funereal black hat, and dropped cigarette ashes all over himself. Aspiring journalists began copying his curt prose and his garb. Said the Manchester Guardian: "He taught Fleet Street that a gossip column should be written . . . with more candor than charity. He got up on stilts to teach reporters how to get off their knees in the presence of the powerful...
...First Round. Cardinal Lercaro's red hat was barely two weeks old when he attempted his first major stroke of psychological warfare. There would be a huge pre-Lenten carnival for children, he announced, and it would be held in Margherita Gardens, the city park used so often for Communist rallies that Bolognesi call it "Red Gardens...
...very moved," said the cardinal, flicking confetti from his round black hat...