Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hurja first bet Mr. Huntley a hat that Democratic Nominee Joseph Guffey would beat Senator Reed this autumn in Pennsylvania. Next time they met, Republican Huntley raised the bet a pair of shoes. Later Mr. Hurja bumped the stakes a couple of shirts and Mr. Huntley came back with some neckties. By last week the bet covered nearly a full wardrobe, which Mr. Hurja stood in imminent danger of losing to Mr. Huntley...
Many oldsters, water dripping from their hat brims, held their breaths, for technically the job of sliding the gigantic Queen Mary into the narrow Clyde was ten times as difficult as the launching of the Albion. But there were no accidents. It was all over in 75 seconds...
...black suit, black hat and silver fox fur, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney swept into the chambers of a New York Supreme Court Justice in Manhattan. Trotting at her side was a spindly little girl of 10 who called her "Aunt Gertrude." In an outer room sat the little girl's mother, Mrs. Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt. If Mrs. Whitney noticed that her brother "Reggie's" widow was also dressed in a black suit, black hat and silver fox fur, there was no glance to show...
There are legends about Ivan Michurin. One is that he has never left the town where he was born 74 years ago. Another is that when he was a stripling in high school he met the principal on the street one day, kept his hat on his head because the day was cold, was expelled for rudeness. Young Ivan got a job as an office clerk, rented twelve good acres of black soil, started experimenting with plants...
...most prolific designer of type (TIME, Nov. 6). Last week, at 70, Fred Goudy had designed his 92nd type face. To celebrate the event Manhattan's National Arts Club gave a reception in his honor, exhibited such typographical curiosities as a leaf from a Gutenberg Bible, an old hat belonging to Mr. Goudy, a gold matrix of a swash "G."* Spectators were informed that never before in the history of typography had anybody cut a matrix of gold. Mr. Goudy chose "G" because it stands for Goudy...