Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...season is a task of extraordinarily controversial character. The past campaign has been a series of upsets and surprises, culminating in the recent happenings on the Pacific coast which succeeded in knocking practically every calculation which had been formed up to that time into the proverbial cocked hat. The best ranking is bound to meet with opposition from a great number of self-appointed critics, many of whom will be just as near the demonstrable truth as the official U.S.L.T.A. decree...
...laughed. Jimmy Thomas had merely sat gaping. Several ushers rushed the young man out of Guildhall, still shouting "Youth! Youth!" He told reporters that he is one Herbert Gervers. Such is British tolerance that he was not arrested, was even permitted to re-enter Guildhall to get his coat, hat and stick from the cloakroom, finally swaggered off into the night, immaculate...
...some critics advised, the ghastly hospital episode were omitted from the play, the drama would never reach any height at all. Roadside is written and played with intense and commendable sincerity. Playwright Lynn Riggs has written the saga of a Texas superman who wears a 10-gal. hat, bursts out of gaols, woos and wins Miss Ruthelma Stevens (the comely somnambulist of Hotel Universe). Unfortunately, the speeches and posturings which the cast must affect are not of the sort which result in success in the theatre. Roadside must be recorded as one of the few missteps of Producer Arthur Hopkins...
...Hat." Knox the Hatter (Manhattan) advertised: "Pay like a gentleman ... if you must bet on your favorite sport, bet something you'd like to win. Bet a Knox Hat...
...just the same under- neath. On the living room wall was a large photograph of the man with whom Rosie had run away. Said Ashenden, "I wonder what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand. He had a heavy mustache, waxed at the ends...