Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, before the convention of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Hat Workers Union in Manhattan, Harriman (who had been calling himself a not-active candidate) threw an old grey fedora into news cameras and cried: "I want to say to you that this hat is in the ring - this is a hat you gave me, and no one is going to take it away from me." He made his announcement less than 24 hours after David Dubinsky, boss of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and a vice chairman of New York State's Liberal Party, had told the hatters...
Richter, never in trouble before, decided in his desperation to rob a bank. He stole a set of license tags, bought a shotgun and sawed it off, drove 70 miles to Ulen, Minn., a town he had never seen. In raincoat and hat bought as a disguise, he tramped into the tiny Northwestern State Bank twice to case it, nervously returned a third time with the shotgun. He ordered Assistant Cashier Paul Ormbreck to stuff money into a paper sack, dashed out with $1,158, after trussing up Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty...
...dazzling schemes: open a Gold Showroom in Paris featuring one of the gold-plated Daimlers. As the idea grew, so did the expense, until finally Lady Docker simply had to have some gear to go with it: a gold-plated dress, a mink cape and a mink-trimmed hat. The outfit cost $20,-ooo but, said Lady Docker: "Since I was doing nothing more than acting as a model, I decided to charge it against tax." When the tax people objected, Sir Bernard tried to bill B.S.A. B.S.A. also objected, and finally Sir Bernard paid for the rig himself...
...Johnson, it was not a success. "There was no click," Perles confesses sadly. Yet, "was I already under the spell of that personality which was later to manifest itself in his epoch-making books?" Two years later the question was answered. He was-even though Miller "talked through his hat, like an inspired lunatic...
...typical "old grad" of American folklore, with his hip flask in the fall, his straw hat and banner in the spring, and his instantaneous reversion to puerility any time that he sets foot back on the campus, has disappeared. He has gone the way of maid service in the Harvard Houses...