Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anniversary of the abolition of slavery and the second visit to Porto Rico by a U. S. President. At the City Hall the President was presented with a large tablecloth on which had been embroidered elaborate flower designs. Governor Roosevelt had asked President Hoover to leave behind his top-hat and tailcoat because few Porto Ricans own such ceremonial attire. By the President's compliance, everybody was in informal linens...
...When I returned to my hotel my nerves gave way, although for the last hour and a half I had had myself under complete control. The very second I laid down my hat and coat, a cold sweat such as I had never known in my life before broke out all over my body-the physical reaction which naturally followed the unutterable psychic strain. And then for the first time I knew that the worst hour of my life lay behind...
...campus character?a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder is in any doubt, he will find...
...Gideon bible from the graduate students. . . . What would the campus be without the spectacle of Mr. Berry making a weekly pilgrimage to his laundress? . . . What would the Sun's advertising columns be without Mr. Berry's frequent full-page contributions? . . . Mr. Berry belongs to Cornell. Mr. Berry's hat is just as much a part of its owner as his glasses with the heavy black band, or his full dress suit, or his tweed knickers...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Mam, 73, cosmographer, critic of Fascism, friend to the Royal House of Italy; at Pisa. Given his red hat along with the late great Cardinal Mercier, twice a candidate for the Papacy, he performed the marriage ceremony between Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and Princess Marie José of Belgium last January...