Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found one stuck out of a sleeve. He stopped at a cattle sales barn outside North Platte, made a short speech from the auctioneer's stand. At Lexington, when he had to wait until 3 a.m. for a train, he stretched out on a hard bench, pulled his hat over his eyes, and took a nap. Beside him he carefully laid Lexington's gift, a huge wooden key to the city...
Horrible Higgins. He arrived, says a fellow student, as "a great lout of a fellow with a North Country accent, who couldn't find his hat because he was sitting on it." But when Laughton began to recite, he ceased to be a figure of fun: he held the room spellbound. For his portrayal of Higgins in Shaw's Pygmalion, he won the academy's highest award. Shaw dropped in on one rehearsal and commented: "Young man, you were horrible as my Higgins, but nothing will stop you from getting to the top of the tree...
...visitors swarmed through the gallery, Bemelmans swarmed too. He chattered merrily, all but poured the punch. "Painting is fun," he told everyone. "But of course the most fun is selling the pictures." Houstonians took the hint. By the time Bemelmans pulled out of town in a new cowboy hat, at least seven of the canvases had been spoken for. One oilman's wife had offered him shares in a wildcat well (yet to be drilled) in exchange for a painting. "I'll swap oil for oil," bubbled Bemelmans...
Even if she doesn't have a head, she'll wear a hat. There are hats with veils and hats with birds and hats with animals and hats with crackers and hats with writings and hats with propellers and hats with...
...entire weekend will be built around the Adams Cup Regatta with Penn and Navy Saturday afternoon, and will be climaxed by the Key's Straw Hat Ball on Saturday night. Featuring a name band, the big dance will again be held in the Indoor Athletic Building with an 800 couple limit imposed on ticket sales by fire regulations...