Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took in a fashion show at Neiman-Marcus' department store, and best of all, got a good taste of cowboy life at the famed King Ranch, where the land and the vast expanses seemed more like home than granite-blocked Washington or gleaming Dallas. There, in five-gallon hat and astride a quarter horse, he got a close look at the King Ranch's own Santa Gertrudis breed of cattle and the clanking oil-digging rigs. At week's end he flew on to California and a trip to Disneyland...
Marblehead's most pernicious problem is a leering, sneering, domineering war correspondent (Keenan Wynn) who would rather chase a bottle than a battle, and who likes to brag that he wears "a 7-5/8 [hat] and about the same size in dames." The problem becomes critical when the correspondent threatens to denounce Marblehead, in print, for building an officers' club while the men have none. Marblehead gets out of that one by forcing his officers to build the clubhouse themselves -a project that produces a gorgeous slapstick sequence, easily the funniest scene in the picture...
...coming of the 1917 Revolution, when all the earnest, high-flown talkers pour into the streets with visions of a newly created heaven on earth. The last lines of the novel make a heartbreakingly ironic point: "We were outside our front door. Father took off his bowler hat and handed it to mother. He folded his arms, turned to Grabovsky and said: 'Imagine, freedom...
...hat is off to TIME for its polished reportage on the U.S. visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The visit itself and articles such as yours help to bring a "strengthening of the British-American friendship ties" which the Queen referred to at the President's banquet...
...also believes hat the federal government will have to keep troops guarding Central High until the end of this school year because "opposition is stronger now than when they came...