Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keith Memorial--"Top Hat...
Keith Memorial--"Top Hat...
...only trouble was that H. R. H. must salute the quarterdeck of the Wishart on stepping aboard, could, by British Admiralty tradition, do so only with his hat on. Frantically someone produced a white linen one which the Prince brushed impatiently aside. Coaxed Mrs. Simpson: "Davie, dear! Please wear...
...must wear a black veil. Well, I had a black crêpe de Chine dress with long sleeves left over from last winter, which I had had all pressed and cleaned by the tailor, and it was hanging in my closet. I bought a small black felt hat, new black slippers, a small black veil, black hose and black gloves. I packed these things in a sort of 'sacred apart' from my other garments...
...bold banking talk, the scrappy little New York Daily News (circulation: 1,550,000) ran a cartoon to point up an accompanying editorial titled: "The Bankers Are a Funny Race." Emerging from a cyclone cellar in the cartoon was the pot-bellied figure with cane, cigar, spats and silk hat that traditionally represents the banker. The figure, however, wore neither pants nor coat and only the tattered remnants of a shirt around his neck. In confusion about the figure lay twisted steel rails, bits of machinery, other wreckage left by a black twister labeled "Rugged Individualism." Disappearing in the distance...