Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ager alike, they were waiting for a glimpse of the movie queen (Grace Patricia Kelly) who was sailing to Monaco to wed the reigning Prince (His Serene Highness Rainier III). Two hours before sailing time, Grace arrived in a black limousine, wearing a beige wool suit, a white straw hat shaped like a mushroom, and a radiant look. Not far to the rear came a retinue of 80-friends, relatives, business associates. And then-tagged "Grace Kelly, The Palace, Monaco"-four trunks and 56 other pieces of luggage, including 20 hatboxes ("I love hats, and at last they...
...scene. Crushed together, reporters shouted their questions; photographers climbed on the bar, on tables, stools, railing, on each other's shoulders for height, and, with flashbulbs crunching underfoot, shouted orders at their victim: "Hey, Grace! Looka me!" "Stand up, Grace!" "Take it off, Grace [the hat]!" Other photographers, crowded out onto the deck, whammed their fists against the glass wall to catch her attention. The conference got so out of hand that a pressagent shouted: "Please! Please! Behave like ladies and gentlemen!" Another cried: "This is a press conference, not a riot! Unless you back up and give this...
Outside the White House on a sunny day, Mamie Eisenhower, wearing a four-leaf-clover pillbox hat that soon became notorious because Ike didn't quite like it ("She's got one I like better"), displayed her newest and fourth grandchild, three-month-old Mary Jean Eisenhower...
...were spitting sparks-but they had lasted long enough. At the final pit stop, Co-Driver Castellotti offered the car to Fangio, but Fangio magnanimously waved him on. "Eugenic, you finish," he said. "You've earned it." Then the world champion lit a cigar, slapped a battered canvas hat on his head, and settled back to watch his Ferrari slide home a winner...
...Birds. In Lindenhurst, N.Y., the case against Frank Richards, charged with allowing a rooster to run loose and perch on the hat of a twelve-year-old girl, was dropped after Richards showed up for trial, informed the court that he had eaten the evidence...