Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft and Wherry announced that they would stand behind the President, but they had a few rocks in their hands when they said it, and quickly whizzed them off at Secretary of State Dean Acheson's elegant top hat. The Communist attack in Korea might well not have taken place, argued Taft, if the U.S. had given the South Koreans proper aid, and he thought Acheson "had better resign." Wherry loudly agreed. Now that the U.S. had decided to protect Formosa, as he had urged, said Taft, he felt vindicated. But Taft said nothing about Senate votes last September...
...century. Ranged against their contemporaries and followers of the last 50 years, they still ranked with the best the U.S. has produced. Two of them-Whistler and Sargent-had been polished expatriates whose works reflected London and London society with all the elegance and sheen of an opera hat. Landscapist Winslow Homer and Philadelphia Portrait Painter Thomas Eakins, who stayed at home, painted with a directness and clarity that no U.S. artist has yet surpassed...
...kept from going to pieces. At 16, he finally persuaded his family to let him study the classics and go on to the university. Soon he was a well-known figure in the streets of Prague, a wraith-pale young man in a black frock coat and broad-brimmed hat, drifting vaguely along in a rapture with a long-stemmed iris he held before him like a votive candle...
...Gambler Frank Erickson, who looks like an aggrieved pig and dresses like an advertising executive, could see his mistakes now. He never should have taken his office out of his hat and moved into a fancy Park Avenue office, complete with an accountant and neatly kept records. He never should have said anything to those Senators down in Washington...
...Reader McNeillie's hat...