Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spartanburghers are resourceful. The Rev. Mr. Henderson pulled his hat down over his eyes, changed his overcoat, shaved off his mustache. Being thus, as he said, "disguised," Pastor Henderson took to haunting Regent's Park zoo. Last week he again met a charming young man who had just been left ?400,000. His accomplice was nearby. They went to a teashop to talk things over. In the midst of tea O'Rourke (real name, Robert George) lost his appetite and began to run. Sprinting hard, the Rev. Mr. Henderson caught him three blocks away. Both crooks were jailed...
...last chapters, which tell of their barely successful race against Pingle and his party back to Para, are the most exciting and amusing part of the book. Author Fleming minimizes the discomforts of Matto Grosso insects, the dangers from wild beasts and sunstroke (he says he never wore a hat in the sun). He and his two companions waded all one day among shoals of the dreaded piranhas (little man-eating fish), though he admits it might not have been so safe if one of them had had an open cut on his body. The attitude of the whole anti...
...Paul Lewis will offer free chances on himself to girls and women "between the ages of 16 and 50, of sound mind, good moral character and eligible to marry.'' At the end of a year he will draw his bride's name out of a hat, present her with himself and $5,000 which he hopes to earn on his tour. If he refuses to marry the winner he will pay her the $5,000 as damages, give additional profits to charity. E. Paul Lewis prepared for matrimony by leaving home, changing his name, studying voice culture...
...week like a chess champion playing five games at once. Secretaries waylaid him. Callers with briefcases plucked at his sleeve. At sight of a new caller the young man's wide mouth widened into a grin. The visitor was also tall, bronzed, handsome. From under his snap-brim hat he regarded his host quizzically as he asked: "How goes it, Gene...
Last week-end Gene Vidal flew to Manhattan to eat wild duck with his friends George Palmer Putnam and Paul Collins. As usual he carried no baggage except a toothbrush and shirt in his pocket. He never wears an undershirt. His hat, a floppy, wide-brimmed Borsalino, bears inside the legend: "The Latch-String Always Hangs Outside,' Amon G. Carter, Shady Oaks Farm, Fort Worth...