Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clear just as the cab's occupants were leveling their machine gun. Brr-rrr-ack ! went a volley. Careening into a wooded lane, the sedan bounced crazily over bumps and ruts, crashed into an elm. The two men leaped out, ran in opposite directions. One peeled off his hat & coat, dropped them. By the time their pursuers reached the spot, both had escaped. Few hours later a farmer explained that for $10 he had unwittingly driven one of them to a trolley in nearby Maywood. The fugitive had pleaded that his wife had almost caught him in the woods...
...they collected when they released him last month. By tapping the telephone wires in Factor's apartment the officers had learned of the second extortion demand, persuaded the frightened Factor to let them lay an elaborate ambush. All they got for their pains was the hat & coat and the damaged sedan, the license of which was listed under the name of a man connected with Chicago's "Terrible Touhy" gang. Newsmen discovered that 300 policemen had been organized for the trapping, but that unfortunately their sealed orders failed to state what it was all about. While the policemen...
...topped desk, piled with papers and equipped with two telephones. She arrives at 9 o'clock, eats lunch from a tray, goes out for dinner at 7, returns to work until midnight. Her long hours cost her the services of her first government chauffeur. She usually wears her hat in the office. Her secretary is an efficient, rather bossy person named Frances Jurkowitz-"Miss Jay" to all-one of whose first duties is to ensure her superior as much privacy as possible. Madam Secretary used to serve ginger ale out of her own pocket at press conferences but stopped...
...King Edward and a Master of the Household for King George -not to mention Mrs. Trefusis. To her Mae West party went the Prince of Wales's good friend, the Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes, in a honey-colored broad cloth coat of her mother's, plumed hat and rhinestone-studded gloves. Equally of the period and all in big feathery hats, the Countess Jean de Polignac, the Duchess d'Harcourt and the Countess Jean de Vogue arrived from Paris' socialite Olympus to agree that only Mrs. Trefusis had transformed herself with complete success into "Diamond...
...belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried his sapper's axe. The typical Napoleonic uniform...