Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Children (by Elmer Rice; produced by the Playwrights' Company) proved that famous playwrights can also be foolish ones. Elmer Rice attempted to stand a lot of theatrical old hat in the corner while standing the theater itself on its head. Elliott Nugent, as a lecturer who hated the theater, and Betty Field, as one who loved it, sat at opposite ends of the stage and carried on an evening-long comment. The play involved a playwright whose own play involved all the players in Playwright Rice's; and while spoofing onstage setups, it highlighted backstage antics...
...engines contrived by man, few have titillated the imagination like that noble automotive artifact, the Stanley Steamer. Nobody, according to early legend, knew how fast it would go, but thousands of dustered and begoggled motorists believed that a man with nerve enough to hold its throttle open after his hat flew off could keep it accelerating indefinitely. It was rumored -though here the mind reeled and the senses boggled-that it might reach 100 miles an hour...
...Bray pulled the hat trick, and Crimson goalie Johnny Marshall was outstanding in the nets with 24 saves...
Paced by Bob Harding and Bob Baldwin, who each pulled the hat trick, Winthrop ran rampant over undermanned Dunster...
Since August, when a picture of General MacArthur kissing the gloved hand of Mme. Chiang Kai-shek was published in Paris, France has been agitated over the problem: Should a gentleman kiss a gloved hand? The fact that General MacArthur was shown wearing his hat and grasping a pipe in his left hand added to the confusion...