Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seaham's working (and jobless) men raised no cheer for. the Prime Minister. But a few women shrilled encouragement, heartened him to lift his hat and bow slightly as he entered Seaham Labor Hall. Inside. Seaham's 80 Laborite Committeemen, who always before had received Scot MacDonald standing & cheering, sat expressionless in their 80 chairs...
...thrifty France the Speaker's bell is anchored pendulum-wise to a firm support. When its ringing proves futile, the Speaker puts on his slightly conical French silk hat, stalks from the Chamber or Senate, automatically suspends the session by this gesture...
...truck forced its way into the Lenker farm. Farmer Lenker & friends promptly halted it, forced Sheriff Maxson to pay $5 damages, then shooed the truck back into the road. By this time the deputies were on the run. Dr. Malcolm, who tarried longer than the rest, lost his hat, brief case and suit case, had the gas line of his car broken, the radiator filled with mud, the windows smashed, the tires slit with pitchforks. He refused to get out of the car, was pushed in it to Wilton Junction. From there he scurried to Iowa City and soon...
...spurred on a four-mile parade which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each to watch the parade from a specially constructed grandstand. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. came all the way from his governorship in Porto Rico to stride by waving his hat and exhibiting a big-toothed grin somewhat like his father's. In sidetracked Pullmans at Windsor. Legionaries were pictured leaning out of windows with bottles of foaming brew in their hands and pointing to what they had scrawled along the car's side: WE WANT BEER. That...
...develops third-act trouble. Father Battle's wife pleads with him. Mrs. Granger pretends she is in love with him, begs him to stay. Little Diana Granger wants to go away with him and be his mistress. At the final curtain, Father Battle just picks up his hat and walks off, as promised some 45 min. previously...