Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yards of them. Rushing to the rescue, an Italian steam locomotive tugged the MacDonald train to Genoa where Air Minister General Italo Balbo waited at the controls of a big trimotored Italian seaplane. Flanked by nine escort planes, they darted toward Ostia (the seaplane port of Rome). In top hat, morning coat and carrying a cane. Il Duce peered skyward as Scot MacDonald, hatless and tousle-haired, waved from the alighting seaplane...
...even more erratic than the first two. The brother passes his examination. The novelist is dismissed. While lunatic panic sweeps through the house Elizabeth and her businesslike sweetheart settle themselves on the stairway for a little lovemaking. It is 6 a. m. Mother Rimplegar wistfully wanders in mending a hat...
...crime in Church & some States, another kind of banking morality was evident last week: Howell Getty, cashier of First National Bank of Wilmington, Pa., left a directors' meeting, drove two miles out on a country road and shot himself through the head. In the automobile, atop his hat and glasses, was found a note: "The $50,000 insurance policy which the bank holds on my life will pay the depreciation on the bond account and allow the bank to re-open...
...galleries four and five, the silver is important because the pieces were given to the University in the early eighteenth century by students who wished to be Fellow Commoners. To become one, he had simply to present plate to the University, and then he could wear lace in his hat, and did not have to do fag duty for the upperclassmen. The portraits on display, which are of the same period, represent people once closely connected with the University, such as Nicholas Boylston, professor of Rhetoric, after whom is named the professorship the Hall, and the street...
...Keeper of the Sock declared, "Harvard men were easily distinguishable by their dress, but now you cannot tell a student from a down-and-out gentleman of the side-door Pullmans. Even the best among them will pay $50 for a suit and $10 for a hat, only to turn around and spoil it all with a $50 cravat and $3 shoes. The majority, it seems to me, don't bother with the expensive clothes, but buy the cheap ones, and second hand at that!" This latter assertion was authentically confirmed...