Word: hatless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helped by you, taught by you, brought up by you, we leave you to hordes of the eager but frightened, the phone-answering, non-smoking, hatless. But in our relation with you, Inchball, we have formed associations with one another that may appear to fade, but will ever revive under your influence. And these associations have been, perhaps, the most worthwhile pages of your textbook...
Hatmakers of provincial Issoudun went about hatless. Their employers, wounded to the quick, locked them out. It finally took a deft coup de maitre to put everything right. The management agreed to buy each employe a new hat every year; workers promised to wear hats, at least when entering and leaving the factory...
Died. Sir Walter Gilbey, 85, rollicking British distiller and amateur horseman, famed for his loud check suits, curly-brimmed hats, perennial mauve carnation boutonnieres (two a day, four on Sundays, 39,000 in 47 years); in his partially blitzed London home. He loudly deplored the modern hatless, sweatered riders seen on Hyde Park's swank Rotten Row bridle path ("Hottentots!"), once launched a short-lived campaign to endow lectures on riding etiquette...
...Visionary. Next day it was Henry Wallace's turn. Having walked the three miles from his Wardman Park apartment hatless in a raw wind, he arrived pink-cheeked and just nine minutes late. He, too, got a cheer from the crowd-his friends, this time. He, too, got quickly to what he believed to be the point...
...white-haired John Bricker rolled on in his prodigious Western tour, preaching the straight Republican gospel morning, noon & night, sometimes making nine speeches in a 15-hour day of traveling. He stumped Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri, riding hatless up dozens of main streets in dozens of shiny open automobiles. Applause followed his tall, white-crested figure constantly, but it was hard to tell whether his muscular evangelism was bringing Democrat sinners forward to be saved or merely firing the faithful with enthusiasm...