Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington's Birthday being a truly American occasion, a friend of mine accosted me on Massachusetts Avenue early Thursday evening and politely suggested that we spend the evening observing a truly American art form. "Why don't we stomp down to the Hi-Hat and dig Illinois," he said...
...hours and five drinks later we were out in the cold, coatless, in front of a squat building known as the Hi-Hat. We entered and smiled benignly at the chichat check girl. A short dapper man with horn-rimmed glasses approached...
...flight of stairs into the main room. "The place," he said, "is really jumpin'." The concert hall of the Hi-Hat is divided into three areas: the bandstand, populated by seven bouncing musicians; a submerged central portion, filled with numerous raucous patrons; and an elevated section in the rear holding the more sedate element. The only table available was in the last section. It was partially filled and we were invited to join two young ladies at a table...
...longtime Baltimore favorite. A Johns Hopkins tradition attributes the following informal prescription to the great Dr. William Osier: 1) hang a hat on the bedpost, 2) go to bed and drink rock-and-rye until there are two hats on the bedpost...
...miles in four days, starting his sessions with Sears store managers at 5:45 a.m. sharp, and whirling through stores, speeches, conferences, until everyone else is ready to drop. His clothes are often rumpled, his shoes unshined, his collar open and his tie askew. He wears a battered hat atop his silvery head and a topcoat that looks as if it came off the pile at Sears-which it did. He munches, instead of smokes, cigarettes. Despite his breakneck pace, Wood is still pink-cheeked and healthy; his 180 lb., 5 ft. 9½-in. frame is tough as rawhide...