Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends of the lawyers; Alice Roosevelt Longworth; Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt making sketches; one day the new Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; a handful of anonymous spectators lucky enough to get in; Judge Henry Goddard, uttering scarcely a word; the wooden-faced male jurors; the lady jurors wearing increasingly frivolous hat styles; Hiss's grey-haired attorney, Claude B. Cross; and dominating the court by sheer size-Hiss's determined adversary...
Before the publishing house of George Newnes Ltd., just off London's Strand, a hansom cab stopped and out stepped an elegant young man in top hat and frock coat. He was Arthur Conan Doyle, come to deliver the manuscript of a short story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia. Published in the six-month-old Strand magazine, in July 1891, the story's hero was a sleuth named Sherlock Holmes. He was an instant hit and so was the Strand...