Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hat. It was a point on which many another of Mamie Eisenhower's friends gave testimony. To illustrate, more than one of them recalled a Washington banquet for General George Marshall at which Ambassador Joseph C. Grew served as toastmaster. Amid one burst of emotional oratory, Grew's tongue slipped: General Marshall, he said, wanted nothing more than to retire to Leesburg with Mrs. Eisenhower. Flustered, as the room rang with laughter, the ambassador halted to apologize "to the general." Smiled Mamie: "Which general...
...handling of a prewar officer's pay, still has a tendency to treat each dollar with great care. In Paris, she attends dress shows but rarely buys. "Do you see me paying $800 or $900 for a dress?" she cries. If she is complimented on a hat, she is likely to say that she saw it in an advertisement in the Sunday New York Times, and bought it by mail for $16.95. She is a doting grandmother, and writes weekly to her son, Infantry Major John (who last week received orders to report to the Far East this summer...
From his puritanized city the monk denounced Alexander VI as a usurper. Alexander at first tried to bribe him with a cardinal's hat. Savonarola replied: "No [red] hat will I have but that of a martyr reddened with my own blood." After he defied a papal excommunication, his political enemies, assisted by the Pope's political friends, stormed San Marco, had him tortured and executed...
...David Shapiro of Manhattan, the bright Italian sun seemed on fire; he was painting his skies a burning yellow. Sculptor Robert Becker of Far Rockaway, N.Y. was working in black screen, exhibited an abstraction that looked rather like a woman's fancy hat. Others had turned to Italy's fawn-colored countryside, painting delicately tinted landscapes and soft, expressionistic pictures of peasants and village priests. A favorite of the show: New Mexican Edward Chavez's flowing study of three white nuns' bonnets set against an abstract Florentine background...
...Metropolitan Club, just a block from Lafayette Square where Andrew Jackson, prancing above the flower beds on his bronze horse, perpetually takes off his hat to the White eat that official Washington likes best to be seen eating lunch. There, almost every day when he's in town, promptly at 1 arrives a spare, neatly dressed individual with dark hair and eyes and the restrained impatience of manner of a man whose every moment is very, very valuable. In his 63 rd year, Walter Lippmann still looks the precocious young deep thinker of the days...