Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
...vacation on Samuel Untermyer's estate at Palm Springs, Calif, the Mayor slipped out of his office, crossed to Jersey City to avoid prying eyes and newshawks, boarded a Baltimore & Ohio R. R. official car with A. C. Blumenthal, Fox film executive, and Mr. Blumenthal's wife. A hat pulled down over his pinched face, he allowed a vigilant newspaper photographer one picture, said he "wanted to get away from all these investigations" (TIME, March...
...Coogan) squatted on the curbstone beside him. Not so obvious to U. S. readers was Secretary of State for the Dominions Jim Thomas, sprawled on a sofa while a coronetted earl lit his cigar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden tripping up an ineffectual little man in a bowler hat who represents the British taxpayer...
...great financier had attempted to send a telegram to Paris. It was not passed by the Government censor. When it was brought to Prime Minister George G. Mironescu he seized his hat, hopped into his limousine, dashed for the Royal Palace...
...Sophie's last letter to him was bitter, nagging, complaining; she demanded he come back and take her away. Then the news came that Gaudier was dead. Says Ede: "Many people will remember Miss Brzeska in the streets of London, a strange, gaunt woman with short hair, no hat, and shoes cut into the form of sandals." She died in an asylum some few years later...