Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President in Feldmarschal's uniform and spiked helmet, Chancellor Heinrich Brüning in his high hat. Defense Minister Wilhelm Groener in his high hat et omnes in their high hats were presently in position. A glorious sun beamed on Kiel. In the harbor a short distance away the entire German home fleet (27 ships) was drawn up ready to blaze a 21-gun salute. No one was supposed to know that the new ship would be christened Deutschland-named after the beloved Fatherland by HINDENBURG. Officially the sleek, rivetless war-boat, cunningly welded together by German genius...
...Millers, Johnsons, Browns, Joneses, Davises, Wilsons, Moores, Williamses, Thompsons and Taylors listed in the telephone directory were asked to define the typical family. Then Reporter M. K. Wisehart.of American Magazine obtained from the local Chamber of Commerce a list of typical corporations, cut it up, drew one from a hat. It was Pitman-Moore Co. To the officers of Pitman-Moore Co. he gave the definition adduced from the replies of the Smiths, Joneses, Browns, et al. They replied: "That's Brownie, our sales manager...
...that has drooped and wandered where it would for years had been neatly trimmed, sleeked down. The Great Man wore a sack suit which had actually been pressed! His valet hovered in the offing with a hatbox and a suitcase. Out of the box could come a high silk hat, and out of the case a full dress suit. Put these clothes on Briand and- you would have the President-Elect-voilá! It was the valet's great and tragic hour. Afterward Frenchmen cynically said: "Briand's friends all cheered for him- but many voted for Doumer...
...team of French soccer amateurs, to the great surprise of themselves and a hat-throwing crowd of 35,000; a match against a team of seasoned English professionals, 5 to 2, at Colombes, France. ¶The Philadelphia Athletics: Nine baseball games in a row. In the ninth, beating Cleveland 15 to 10, Simmons, Foxx and Cochrane hit homeruns, each with two men on base...
...George Hubert Wilkins, lacking his hat as he usually does in springtime, strode into an obscure store of lower Manhattan last week. The store is only locally obscure. Among explorers it is world famed. The sign outside carries the legend: Fiala Outfits. That is sufficient. Anthony Fiala, 61. is the foremost U. S. outfitter of expeditions. Originally a lithographer and photographer, he sidled into the outfitting business after twice trying to reach the North Pole-with the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901-02) and the Ziegler (1903-05) expeditions. He accompanied Roosevelt through Brazil in 1913-14. Explorer Wilkins found Outfitter Fiala...