Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Belmont Hill downed the Yarding hockey team, 5 to 4, yesterday afternoon at the Arena to hand Coach George Roberts' men their first defeat of the season. Jeb Bray's hat trick led the Crimson scoring...
There was a man named . . . Brigadier General Thomas O. Hardin . . . In his leather jacket and beat-up hat, he was zipping back & forth over the Hump at times when any self-respecting general would have been making out his per diem vouchers. . Legend has it that he started over one night shortly after a group of transports took off. Arriving in China, he was something less than delighted to learn that all of the transports had turned back because of thunderstorms. He then issued his famous proclamation: "There will be no more turning back because of weather conditions...
...boats, flying the yellow & white papal standard, and manned by a crew of young huskies armed with new Tommy guns and wearing on their shoulders Le Huu Tu's own crest, a Chinese dragon coiled around a trumpet, surmounted by a star and a bishop's hat...
...literary lions headed into the deep bush when they scented Fred on their trail. Poet John Masefield, for instance, responded to Fred's advances with a "chilly" printed card, and that "awful snob" Rudyard Kipling, trapped by Fred outside a museum, "raised his stick as I raised my hat." But for the most part Fred managed to turn his literary relationships into a neat, profitable routine...
...their alarms for 6:50 and had a good breakfast before they set out to catch the 8:04 commuter train, and the mad-dashers who lolled till after 7. But by the time they reached the station, dressed in the standard uniform of gabardine topcoat and mouse-grey hat, they were pretty indistinguishable. For these were young men planning to get ahead in the world, ex-G.I.s to a man, whose stay at Camptown, they assured one another, was "only temporary...