Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, as the comrades glared, Mannu disappeared into a shop, bought some rubber-soled shoes, a green necktie, a scarf, and a hat like the one he had admired in an American movie. He tipped the shopgirl $3, promenaded off with 25 friends to a lunch of lobster & champagne. He said that henceforth he would drink beer with his meals, travel only by plane. Then he flew off for Rome...
...night last week, while socialites gathered around the illicit green gaming tables of the recently reopened Quitan-dinha Hotel at Petropolis, Baby stepped to the door, blew a shrill blast on a police whistle. As the guests scampered out, Baby tipped his straw hat to them. Another time, when he visited New York, he booked a suite of eight rooms in a Park Avenue hotel, rang up various girl friends and gave a continuous house party...
Lavender Gloves. Public education began in Denver on a hot August afternoon in 1859, when a strange figure in black broadcloth, a glossy plug hat and lavender gloves appeared driving a span of oxen down the dusty main street. The newcomer drove expertly, shouting his commands in Latin, until finally and inevitably he came to a stop outside Uncle Dick Wootton's saloon and general store. His first statement to the townsmen was in English, not Latin, though they would have understood it in any tongue. It was: "Set 'em up. The drinks...
This week, Nehru gave his hat another workout. He announced that India will adopt a "wait and see" attitude toward Communist designs on Indo-China and Tibet. Neither Indo-Chinese regime-that of Communist Ho Chi Minh or French-backed Bao Dai-would be recognized by New Delhi. Then the Prime Minister turned to President Truman's decision to make the hydrogen bomb. "If you have come to the conclusion that the world is a pretty bad show," he said, "then let the hydrogen bomb put an end to it. If you want to carry on the world with...
...fleet-foot of the six in recent games has been the 150-pound Hubbard, who was elected captain after the Brown game and went on to score a goal and two assists against the Green at Hanover and pull the three-goal "hat trick" against Belmont Hill...