Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back at the farm, David bundled up in his new outdoor outfit, added a Davy Crockett hat (with tail) and a .410 shotgun, joined his genial grandfather in the fields for a brief try at rabbit hunting. All the rabbits got clean away, without a shot fired...
...head, charged that some other hombre backstage reached out with a long pin. "Course I shoot the gun," drawled the punctured marshal. "I just don't use live ammunition." But even worse to the critics was Earp's de-Westernized act of crooning love songs in top hat and tails, plus some other "sissy stuff" of smooching with leggy gals all over the stage. Fumed Actor O'Brian: "So I kiss a girl, this is a crime? I'm a red-blooded American boy. Besides, I kiss the horse at the beginning of the show...
...Numbers. Moving by the numbers, hat-changing ministers rushed from meetings of the Big Three to reconstitute themselves as The Four, The Six, The Eleven, The Fifteen, The Seventeen. They talked of defense shortcomings, of economic welfare, of hangman's justice in Cyprus, and gun patrols off Iceland...
Surrounded by friends and family, Domenico Tardini, 70, received the Pope's messenger bringing him official notification of his elevation to the cardinalate. In his acceptance speech, the new Vatican Secretary of State recalled that he had refused a red hat from the late Pope Pius XII. Then he added: "The truth is, I wanted to be left in peace. Pope Pius never made anybody do or not do anything. But Pope John has said 'I wish it.' and I have to obey...
...Caniff realized with a start last summer that Poteet was getting too big for her skin-tight blue-jean britches. Says he: "She was becoming increasingly curved in all the right places." Playing it safe, Caniff will never bring Poteet back as a wide-eyed kid in a cowboy hat. When she does reappear some time next year, Poteet will be hovering on the edge of womanhood. Cartoonist Caniff is even now pondering his next problem: Should grown-up Poteet make a grown-up play for Steve...