Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Municipal credit is about to collapse . . . municipal bonds are held by ... widows and orphans . . . the 65.000.000 people who live under our care. . . . We did not cause the depression. . . . We warn you ... city of the government. rapidly . . ." approaching collapse of Mayor Curley put back on his coat, clapped on his hat and, piling into a taxi with Mayors Hoan, Holcombe and Walmsley, ordered: ''To the White House." For 15 minutes President Roosevelt listened sympathetically to his callers, promised them nothing, advised them to go to the Treasury. Thither they drove to see Governor Black of the Federal Reserve Board...
...college were in their cradles when the World War began; they were playing marbles when we entered it. But they are living now in the midst of the Great Depression and amid the rumors of another was hovering over Europe and over the world. They illustrate the paradox hat the youngest generation is the oldest in the way of the funded experience of the race. They will have no traffic with the exploded efficacy of war as a way to end ware. They have read too much recent history and lived too much in the midst of it to believe...
Radicals and Radical-Socialists have an unofficial uniform in France: a soft black felt hat. The type of hat is left to the fancy of the wearer. M. Herriot wears a rather dumpy velour. Until he became Premier in January Edouard Daladier wore a romantic fedora. His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg...
...gentleman. While they were talking, a loud knock announced the arrival of Inspector King of the Nassau County police, summoned thither by the reporter. "Aren't you Mr. Harriman?" he demanded abruptly. "No, I am Mr. Thomas," was the reply. But lying on the window sill was a hat bearing the initials "J. W. H." on the sweatband. Noting this, the Inspector strode from the room, telephoned the Manhattan police...
...George Raft refused because it would "offend his public," Jack La Rue - a heavy-lidded young Italian who went to Hollywood to play in Scarface and lost the part to Raft - is effectively sinister. Miriam Hopkins gives a brilliant performance as Temple Drake. Good shot : Temple fidgeting with her hat after she has pried it out of the dead Trigger's clenched fingers...