Word: hatless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn, a fish peddler (Giacomo Puleo) and a laundry-wagon driver (William Levine) left their horses uncovered in a storm. Haled to court they were sent to stand coatless, hatless, for 15 minutes in the winter rain. Magistrate Golden said: "Now you know what it feels like...
Have you gone hatless, worn knickers, or followed any style of dress merely because you wished to, even though you knew that the practice would be commented on, since the innovation you proposed was not according to custom...
...President then turned toward the crowd and the microphones. He was wearing a light overcoat, but no hat. During the ensuing speech of 40 minutes, Ambassador Riano of Spain, Doyen of the Diplomatic corps, deemed it proper that he, too, should remain uncovered since the President was hatless...
...Brooklyn, 1,500 revelers danced till 3 A. M. at a jamboree given by the Oberdam Social Club (Irish), then: sought their hats, their coats. A long 4 line formed. Two revelers altercated for precedence, first with fists, then with knives; the rest, hatless, coatless, likewise fell to. Patrol wagons, ambulances, ended their jamboree. Two seriously wounded young men were borne off to a hospital...
...bicycle was stolen, his ship left without him, his girl was kidnapped. Searching for a short cut to town, he wandered into a swamp, was bitten by a deadly stingray; into a smugglers' camp, was befriended ; into a native train guard, was jailed, far inland. He escaped from jail, hatless, bootless, penniless; cleaned up a barroom with his good right fist (the jacket design), set out to walk to Los Agostino, 110 miles away across the Sierras, to get news of his ship, of his lady. Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness. Over the hazardous ice-fields...