Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1913, when Thomas Woodrow Wilson became President, the Assembly went Democratic. With tears in his eyes, Governor-elect Moore responded to the cheers of several thousand Jersey City friends who set off fireworks. Beside themselves with enthusiasm, the mob then rushed Governor-elect Moore, broke in the derby hat of "Boss" Frank Hague, ruler of Jersey's Democracy. Heavy-jowled Boss Hague looked pleased...
...Esteban: he had a fine time and learned a lot. Then there was an Indian uprising; he applied for active service, saw plenty. came back not only a colonel but a hero. Life, which he liked simple, began to grow complicated. He put horns on Don Geronimo's hat, and Favia loved him for it; but an Indian woman had attached herself to him and refused to let go. Also Esteban was beginning to dabble in the fire of revolutionary politics. When he simplified everything by leading his tough soldiers in a successful revolt he knew he had lost Favia...
...charity football game, nor it is likely, with all our precedents of quotas and pinning, that he would be allowed to do so. But the Wall Street barons who are so prominent in Harvard's alumni lists should think nothing of dropping a hundred dollar bill into the hat when it is passed around...
Sixty-four-year-old Wilbert Robinson is so well known in Brooklyn that, when his team is losing, citizens stop him on the street, tell him to wear a hat because his brains are dusty. When the directors held their meeting, he was at Dover Hall, his estate in Georgia, where he spends the winters hunting deer, ducks, or turkey, and tippling old corn whiskey with his friends. Though he grunted when he heard the news, Wilbert Robinson could not have been much startled. His mortal enemy, Stephen W. McKeever, chairman of the board of directors, has been urging...
Deck chair gossips remarked that Mile Laval's complexion is as unusually dark as her father's; that she stains half her fingernails blood red; that she has a sports ensemble consisting of yellow crocodile shoes, a tip-tilted red hat, tight black woolen dress and Scotch plaid coat. "I send Mother a radiogram every day," confessed Josette, "to inform her of the state of Father's temper and health...