Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luck of the Irish gave the City of Dublin its most popular mayor last year when the name of City Councilman Robert Briscoe, a Jew, was drawn from a hat to settle a tie in the voting. The fact that the new chief executive of the capital city of Roman Catholic Ireland belonged to an alien faith made Briscoe a headline name throughout the world, and the new Lord Mayor's winning, puckish and amiable personality did the rest. This spring, after he returned home from a triumphant tour of the U.S., extolling Ireland and Israel (the United Jewish...
...town and country places, including a huge London house, a 150-acre estate near Deauville and a vast Paris mansion. But he was rarely in any of his houses, knocked about instead from one plush hotel to another, seemed incapable of settling on a permanent place to hang his hat-or pictures...
...five o'clock one afternoon last week, two stocky figures in ill-fitting topcoats and battered felt hats stepped out of a shabby green railway coach onto the red-carpeted platform of Helsinki Station. After an exchange of platitudes with Finnish Premier V. J. Sukselainen, resplendent in top hat and cutaway, the elder of the two visitors shouted out a greeting to a Finnish army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than...
...great American desert," said J.S. Fox, "is not in Arizona, New Mexico, or Nevada. It lies under the hat of the average man." We optimistically anticipate a time, not too far off, when average will not be synonymous with arid, when character will loudly announce itself as itself, and not as someone else; when the mass will be so throughly revolted with the tasteless mess around it that it will act on its revulsion...
...that dollars can ensure neither appreciation nor loyalty." Said the Times of Indonesia: "Having succeeded to the imperial purple so long worn by the British, the United States today has also inherited its concomitant-resentment, envy, and the readiness of others to take offense at the drop of a hat. It's time for Washington to do some soul searching." (This, if put more charitably, comes close to a general U.S. reaction-the ruefully philosophical recognition that the U.S. is now a big power and therefore must expect to be kicked around as a matter of course...