Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrived the American sailors came ashore. As soon as they landed scores of Italians gathered around them chattering and laughing. Suddenly Palmira, curious to know what the fuss was about, walked through the dusk to the edge of the crowd. As she stood there, an American sailor "with a hat like a saucepan" thrust some chocolate and a carton of cigarettes into her hands. Before she could say anything he was gone...
...type when confronted with applause fumblingly collects his notes, hastens off the podium, and has difficulty opening the door as the clapping of hands resounds in his ears. After the students have filed from the room, he must return to gather up the coat and hat he left behind in his haste...
When the moment arrives for the applause-seeking type to leave, the clapping bursts forth loudly in recognition of the dramatic last lecture. The ovation continues while the instructor drinks a glass of water and slowly searches for his hat. Winter is the ideal time for this type, for he can also fumble with his coat as the ovation goes on. But in Spring he must revert to the device of wishing the class good luck on the final exam, then stopping back to allow the applause to burst forth anew...
...such times he seemed more than ever the indefatigable walker. He once told me that he was good for only a turn just out of the town. But in city clothes and with bowler hat carefully under his arm (as though he had just crossed into Brattle Street) he walked me two or three miles across the country with the steadiness of mountaineer bred to leather...
...those who have ever read a book of Fanny Burney's I bow. To those who dare challenge the statement that she was one of God's dullest creatures, (a medieum of literary wit notwithstanding) I take off my hat. But to those who say that Emily Hahn has not written an excellent biography of Fanny Burney, dullness or no, I reply in heated words. "A Degree of Prudery" is that miracle of writing: an absorbing book about an almost flat person...