Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Oct. 20 issue, you state that the 89-year-old photograph showing a tall man with a stovepipe hat (supposedly Abraham Lincoln) will "start a historical argument." I doubt it ... You are correct in saying that the photograph was taken at Hanover Junction, Pa., by Mathew B. Brady, the famous Civil War photographer. However, the assumption that it shows Lincoln on the way to Gettysburg is nothing but a railway pressagent's wishful thinking...
...Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, pulled on his medal-hung tunic with the silver & gold epaulettes, buckled on his ivory-handled sword, and patted his plumed cocked hat into place. Then he climbed into his big black Humber and drove into Nairobi to open, in the name of the Queen, the 56-man Legislative Council (42 Europeans, 6 Africans, 6 Indians, 2 Arabs) that serves as Kenya's parliament...
Then the Jagermeister solemnly cut a fir twig, placed it in the crease of his green hat, bowed to Stehle and pronounced "Falconer, Heil." Stehle, in turn, bowed, accepted the twig and placed it under the band of his own hat. In two days of competition, with 18 stylish kills, the deadly hunting trio of Stehle, Diana and Mookie successfully defended the title in the international competition sponsored by the Order of German Falconers...
...fence at the other, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. From this street, where the tree of heaven which also grows in Brooklyn thrusts bravely upward from narrow sidewalks, a man emerges almost every day bound for Washington Square, a few blocks away. A weathered hat rides high on a head seeking to soar from squared shoulders loosely draped in an old jacket, from the left pocket of which protrudes a notebook. The face under the hat takes daylight as though it and the light and air are friends. Hazel eyes, which now seem abstracted, can, in the closer proximity...
...cars, Dodge has rounded off the old boxy body, while increasing seating and window space and retaining the "hat-room" that Chrysler Corp.'s Chairman K. T. Keller has always demanded. The new car has a new spring suspension system to cut sway on curves, a shorter wheelbase for greater maneuverability and a new system to make steering easier...