Word: hat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London, Sir Winston Churchill donned top hat and frock coat and turned up at the City's ancient Guildhall for the unveiling of a larger-than-life statue of himself by Sculptor Oscar Nemon. After one look he commented approvingly. But later, Author Gerald Hamilton, 67, a self-confessed "black sheep" of his family, interned in both World Wars for pro-German sympathies, announced that he had modeled for the body of the statue...
...Hats on for the King. A saddlemaker, upholsterer, clockmaker and silversmith before he took up painting, Peale as a young man sailed up and down the seaboard, painting pictures for his fare. When his fellow townsmen at Annapolis offered to underwrite a trip to study at Benjamin West's London studio, young Peale seized the opportunity. Once there, Peale made no attempt to hide his Revolutionary sympathies, ostentatiously refused to lift his hat when the royal carriage passed. But he worked hard. Back home again after two years in London, Peale quickly made a reputation with wealthy Philadelphians...
About the shining hour when Molotov was positioning his head into a ten-gallon 'hat in Cheyenne, a second sensational gesture of amiability was areadying in faraway Red China. Time for lotus and light, the Communists evidently concluded from the extraordinary demeanor of Big Brother; time to show the impressionables and the skeptics that Red China too was making headway toward cooperation (and toward such long-sought objectives as U.S. diplomatic recognition and membership...
...their itinerary was London. The mayor, in a natty, brown-checked suit and a vivid yellow-striped tie, was unabashed to find his British welcomers all dressed up in formal attire. Downing a quick Scotch-on-the-rocks at London Airport, he gazed at the dense horizon of top hats and sighed. "I guess I'll have to buy one," he said. "I haven't worn a topper since last St. Patrick's Day parade." At a luncheon a few days later, Wagner was properly turned out in formal dress and a rented top hat. "That morning...
...welcomed almost with awe. "You'd think," says one cattleman, "that he wasn't listening to you at all. And then after a while, Riney would say something. Then he'd start for the door, stop there and say something else, then pick up his hat and say something else-and finally, all the time fixing to go, he would have told you all you wanted to know...