Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Item 1-A whiskey ad in TIME, showing two old gents, one with a nice string of brook trout and his hat neatly adorned with a bunch of bass bugs and bass flies which no self-respecting trout would even flip his tail...
Plainview, Tex. was credited with evolving the whole thing beneath his pearl grey ten-gallon hat. A tall, loose-jointed, deep-drawling farmer of 46, Cliff Day has a wife, six children and a 320-acre farm which has been judged "best-balanced" in the State. When AAA came along, Cliff Day was made Chairman of the State Cotton Advisory Board and Hale County...
With a number of sparse brown hackles hooked in his hat band, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, onetime (1916-21) Governor General of Canada, better known as the father-in-law of Adele Astaire, sat alone in a skiff on Blackwater River, Irish Free State, last week, fishing. Among the 186,000 acres in various parts of the British Isles that he owns is that part of the river, Lismore Castle high above it, and the fishing rights. It is reported that His Grace was enjoying himself mightily, listening to the whine of the reel, the swish of line...
...indulge in a little purely personal feeling, the censorship in the vicinity of Boston is to me detestable, narrow-minded and undoubtedly something that should have gone out with the stove-pipe hat and knee-britches. Furthermore, even were the articles in the Lampoon to be taken at face-value, I should find them faint-hearted, wishy-washy, just barely pornographic. As they were, I nearly died laughing. Ask any Harvard-man what he thinks of the last Lampoon, and if they are the same men I've asked, you will find them whole-heartedly in its praise. After...
...thing to have filled in another large portion of the map of the world which had hitherto been a blank. It is an equally great achievement to have added valuable information in at least 22 separate branches of science." Then the President of the United States took off his hat and said: "Admiral, I salute you." Then Franklin Roosevelt grasped the Admiral's hand and said: "And let me add just one thing from the heart: Dick, I salute you!" Said Rear Admiral Byrd: "Mr. President, I am very glad that you have mentioned our old friendship, because...