Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...close to an airliner over Chicago's Midway Airport that he forced the plane to reduce its speed. "Oh, for Christ's sake," cried Godfrey. "We certainly weren't endangering him. I merely dipped my wing to say hello. It's like tipping your hat. How close could I have been, if the pilot had to call the tower to ask the identification of my plane? All I do is say hello to a guy, and he turns you in. It makes me sick...
Cheerily waving his hat to an admiring crowd at London airport, Sir Winston Churchill took off with Lady Churchill two days after their 47th wedding anniversary for a vacation on the French Riviera, less than three hours later was motoring from Nice to the Cap-d'Ail villa of Lord Beaverbrook, where he will put up for a while...
Meanwhile, three years ago, Lillian managed to form her own all-girl orchestra, played clubs around Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Occasionally she would put on a "bop hat" and long plaid jacket with huge key chain and hoarsely sing her own lyrics to songs. "Sing! What am I saying?" she laughs now. "But it was the only singing I ever did until just lately...
Indian Giver. Crumped the San Francisco Chronicle: "As matters stand, the poor fellow who answers the $64,000 question will be able to bank but a small hat ful . . ." The Roanoke (Va.) World-News charged the show was "an illusion-a tax snare" and argued that "Uncle Sam's role in these TV giveaways is that of an Indian giver." Even the left-wing New Republic seemed shocked by the enormity of it all, since a successful contestant ". . . would have seen the income tax people (who don't know a thing about the Bible or Shakespeare) grab...
...World War II as chief Catholic prelate in The Netherlands, author of the classic Handbook of Church History; after long illness; in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. Ailing on the date of the Consistory in 1946 when he was to have been elevated to cardinal, Archbishop de Jong received the red hat of office from Pope Pius XII in a special ceremony at Pope Pius' summer residence eight months later, was the first resident cardinal in The Netherlands since the Reformation...