Word: hatbands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitchell lifted the lid off a black hatbox, revealed a yellow cake shaped like a fedora, with a dark chocolate hatband and the initials J.P.M. in white. Said he: "The first piece I'm going to cut I will send to R. Conrad Cooper, who is the management negotiator for the steel companies and certainly responsible in part for this performance. The second piece I will send to David McDonald, the president of the Steelworkers, who shares responsibility. The third I will eat myself...
...week from a quiet on-the-town evening to his apartment house on Manhattan's Central Park West. In the building's vestibule an ill-wisher met Costello, plunked one .38 slug into his head at ten-foot range, departed in a black Cadillac. The bullet, a hatband-guided missile, burrowed like a chigger in a short curve underneath Costello's scalp, and came out at the other side of his head without even nicking his skull. At week's end 60 detectives had poor prospects of finding the bungling gunman before he himself was liquidated...
...school, he urges Tom to get himself a crew cut like the rest of the fellows, forces him to give up the part of Lady Teazle in The School for Scandal. He begs Tom's housemaster (Leif Erikson), a hearty extravert whose biceps are bigger than his hatband, to make a man of the boy. The only person who really knows Tom and likes him. though, is the housemaster's wife (Deborah Kerr. no kin to John). In the end. when Tom has been driven to suicidal desperation by the taunts of his pals and a panic dread...
...Donnell, Connally scoffed, he would not be against Point Four after November. "As soon as he gets out of the woods in the present campaign he will see a light . . . But until November he is going to be as tight as Dick's hatband...