Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mantle and hood. The indoor habit (with the exception of the girdle) is white. When a monk leaves the monastery he wears the outdoor habit, which is the same, save that its color is black. In cool weather he wears also a black cloak, and a black "fried-egg" hat, more common amongst English clergymen than in this country...
...Speaker, if the noble Marquess thinks he is going to bully us with his high and mighty Cavendish ways, all I can tell him is he will find himself knocked into a cocked hat in a jiffy, and we will have to put him to the necessity of wiping the blood of all the Cavendishes from his noble nose a good many times before he disposes...
...years ago, when he produced Rose Marie, Producer Hammerstein was on the crest. The show made him $3,000,000. Shortly thereafter he built a $2,300,000 theatre with a bronze statue of his father, Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, in the lobby. The father's opera hat was put in the cornerstone and ten stained glass windows commemorated the operas he produced. From that time on, Producer Hammerstein fell upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator...
...wear a 7¼ size hat, size 11 shoes, measure 40 in. around the waist and 41 in. around the chest. I am a student at Central Junior High School...
...Berry got back his hat, from a friend of the person who took it. He did not have to pay the $10 reward. He had written in the Ithaca Journal-News: "I love my hat as a little girl loves her doll. Please return my hat." He explained how he had acquired it: At Oxford last summer he saw an old man with a long white beard wearing just such a hat. He wanted one like it, hunted a long time, bought one at last in Edinburgh for 16 shillings...