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Word: hat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, tricked out in a yellow and pink garden dress, picture hat and orange and magenta feather boa, Puerto Rico pursued a hapless, grinning amateur into the wings. Then he laid his pistol down. Out onto the stage stepped one of the most famed alumnae of the Apollo amateur hour: bosomy, nimble-voiced Ella Fitzgerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Apollo's Girl | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...fourths of the pictures were dominated by his sloe-eyed, apple-cheeked, melon-curved women who had a tree-ripened look about them that few other painters could match. Filled with preternatural healthiness, they always seemed to enjoy themselves-boating, strolling on the beach, playing at shuttlecock, buying a hat or peacefully dozing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Enjoy Yourself | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

Yard police--one of whom had his hat removed by the costume bunny during the Union rally--took a few names. Later in the night, however, they promised to take no action, explaining, "We just want to protect you students from the Cambridge police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bunnies Stampede Union in '53-Hunt | 3/29/1950 | See Source »

...unit, drawing only one number. Alternatively, a group could average its number, as Wellesley groups must do under a similar system. This would give both the individual girl and those who want the privilege of staying together an even chance to pull top priority out of the hat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Lottery | 3/28/1950 | See Source »

...first His Majesty was put down merely as an eccentric. Slowly he drifted over into madness. He met a notoriously ugly woman who hid her face under a wide-brimmed floppy hat, stepped up to her, tipped up the hat brim, stared in for a moment and let it drop, saying, "Good God! Even uglier than the Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Live & Learn Nothing | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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