Word: hat
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...unless by library we mean a multimillion-dollar monument to his vital role in world history. These men are, as President Bush put it in his farewell squash match with the White House press corps, "type A" personalities. "I just can't envision myself, you know, the big straw hat and Hawaiian shirt, sitting on some beach," he said. "Particularly since I quit drinking." So what options beckon a President who is relatively young, healthy and unloved by more of his fellow citizens upon leaving office than any other modern President, including Nixon? (See pictures of George W. Bush...
...White Company. Quite naturally, the dynasty flourished. The eldest, Henriette, a painter in her own right, is married to Painter Hurd. Most eccentric of the children is Carolyn, now 54, who gallivants about in a flat black Gaucho hat, paints and teaches art classes. Sister Ann, 48, turned to music, but married one of N.C.'s students, John McCoy, and stayed on in Chadds Ford. Brother Nathaniel, 52, "drew neat little pictures inside little squares," married a niece of Howard Pyle, and quite naturally became a creative engineer in research for Du Pont in nearby Wilmington...
Andy spent at least two years half believing that he was Robin Hood. In a green hat and a phony blond beard, he romped the woods with Little John, a Negro playmate named David ("Doo-Doo") Lawrence, and a band of merry youngsters. Sometimes they would swoop down on a wealthy noble, such as the grocery boy, and back in the forest they would picnic on robbed riches. Another childhood chum was Vincent T. ("Skootch") Talley, who, before he died this month, recalled that Andy's greatest thrill was a mock re-enactment of the battle of Brandywine...
...since Jacqueline Kennedy stepped to the podium in her pillbox hat and fur-collared cloth coat in 1961 has the focus on a First Lady's style been so intense. Before and since, every First Lady has had her signature look that has influenced the way some women dress--from Nancy Reagan's penchant for electric red to Barbara Bush's triple strand of fake pearls. But Obama brings unique stature to the post. Both professionally and physically--at 5 ft. 11 in. (1.8 m), she is nearly as tall as Barack--she stands not behind her husband but shoulder...
...like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo"; "This is Rickey calling on behalf of Rickey. Rickey wants to play baseball"; "Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat." The list goes...