Word: hatless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sculptor Alfred Frank Hardiman, A. R. A., who has been badgered for eight years about his designs. His version of the field marshal's cavalry horse was once described by Lady Haig as "monstrous." She also considered it unnatural that the field marshal's head should be hatless. From the ceremony last week, performed by the Duke of Gloucester in the presence of 2,000 military and 2,000 ex-service men who were lucky enough to live through Haig's battles of the Somme and Passchendaele, Lady Haig was absent...
Back soon after the play to sit in my window and look down on the river bank, with the open cars whizzing down the drive, the reflections of the street lamps peering out of the black water, and the hatless girls ambling along stalking their nocturnal prey...
...twenty-fifth April 15 since the disaster, while foghorns mooed mournfully in the harbor below, three white-surpliced ministers observed the annual custom of placing a wreath at the foot of the Institute's time-ball on the tower and reading a service to some 200 hatless seamen...
...Ellsworth, who afterwards calls His Majesty "cheerful" and denies they talked about selling the King's money-losing Canadian ranch. Edward VIII does the duty of dubbing an Indian politician knight (name: Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma), and is icily angry when perspiring Mr. Baldwin rushes in, soon rushes off hatless again to consult the Cabinet, rushes back and confronts Edward VIII in their angriest scene thus far. The Prime Minister applies to a twice-divorced woman the fighting words "damaged goods." "Sir," ultimatums Mr. Baldwin, "there is no question that Parliament and the Cabinet as well will be in complete...
...Moscow, last week, thousands of hatless workers so jampacked the hump-backed surface of Red Square that dozens fainted in the congestion. For hours they listened to Soviet stump-thumpers whipping up enthusiasm for the plight of "brother workers" in Spain, then voted part of their monthly wages for a Spanish Government defense fund. At week's end it was announced that 12,000,000 roubles ($2,400,000; had been collected from this and other Bolshevik mass meetings, transferred through the Soviet State bank to the Spanish Government...