Word: hatbands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Walter F. Taylor, who ran things even before Bell died last year, Sports Afield has become the biggest of all outdoor monthlies.* Last week it put to bed a November issue that would go to 800,000 customers, a record for its 61 years. Colorful as a hatband full of trout flies, it was filled with picture stories and crackling adventure stuff...
...entirely to make a bathing suit. Among the more popular items (according to spectator ballots and a poll of designers present) were dresses and coats with foot-square monograms on the back. Not so popular were nine outfits for men, including a purple suede topcoat with shoes and hatband to match...
...much better than the average husband's, wanted to know where Smuts had found such a lovely feather. "It's from my hat," said the Queen sweetly. As a reward for gallantry beyond the call of duty, King George VI placed the feather proudly in the hatband of his South African Prime Minister's battered panama...
...Fragmentary Evidence. In Washington, Charles Bullock, charged with breaking a store window, contended that glass shards found in his hatband were crumbs from a meal, nibbled a water tumbler to prove...
...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...