Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reception, the Club was almost kept outside because of improper dress. At another--given by Marshal Foch--one student asked a man who resembled a gendarme to tell him where he had checked his hat. The student's indignation changed to embarrassment when he found he was talking to the general himself...
...closer investigation, McCormack seemed to be talking through his political hat. The Air Force had developed the SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) system under President Truman as a sort of electronic umbrella for the entire nation. President Eisenhower had ordered SAGE adopted as quickly as possible. SAGE would cost the Air Force $5 billion over the next ten years. Of this amount, almost half would...
...William, a major genera! of Oliver Cromwell's England and one oi the 63 judges who condemned King Charles I to death. After the Restoration he fled to the American wilderness, where for decades he was a fugitive from the vengeance of Charles II. With his steeple hat, his flowing white beard, his Bible and his sword, William Goffe became a New England legend (Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of him as The Gray Champion}. Years after his death, the shade of William Goffe reportedly appeared at Bunker Hill, and, later, before John Brown in the engine house at Harper...
...struck. Today most historians diagnose his disease as leprosy. As his toes and fingers began to wither, he is said to have struck several of them off in paroxysms of pain and rage. To hide his inflamed eyelids and grotesque face, he wore an engulfing hood and broad-brimmed hat. When he could no longer walk, he was carried about on the broad back of his slave Januario. To shut out the world's curious, derisive stare, he rigged a tent around him as he worked. Once the governor of Minas Gerais dared stick his head inside the tent...
Major Thompson is a retired, red-faced British officer who wears a bowler hat and barks "By Jove!" His name is, of course, Marmaduke, but Humorist Daninos, not wishing to make his countrymen die laughing, has not named the major's son Fauntleroy. The major's first wife, Ursula, was a British horsewoman with a face like a mare, feet like briefcases and that aversion to sex which most Britons have had since they became neighbors of the French. "Do as I did," Ursula's mother advises, "just close your eyes and think of England!" After Ursula...