Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a crowd around the Prince that I fired the first shot in the air. I hoped that in the resulting confusion I could get a clear view of the Prince and be able to kill him with a well-aimed shot. The second shot I missed. Suddenly my hat blew off, I felt so ridiculous that I threw my gun away...
...anyone doubt this? Curious goings on at Angora last week proved it again up to the Turkish scimitar's hilt. At no end of trouble and no small risk to himself Dictator Kemal, the apostle of "Europeanization" who made Turks take off the fez and put on the hat, provided his beloved country last week with what every real European republic has: a multi-party system, and its result, a crisis...
Evolution is, at best, a prolonged process, so for the present, the college must bide its time and wait patiently for the final drastic step of removing the little green hat, white button and all, into the outmoded customs of the past. For a time we must content ourselves with admiration for Palaeopitus for their wisdom and foresight in granting to the youngest children of Eleazer Wheelock some vestige of the individuality of the New Hampshire hills...
...Major's articles related: "In December 1927, a man named Matthew Quay Glaser was announced at my office. He was a large, robust individual in a noisy suit of clothes. In his hand was an immense cane, and atop his head was a ten-gallon hat which remained there as he pumped my hand effusively. ... In a voice that would have sounded loud in front of a Coney Island tentshow he enlightened me at length about his magnificent accomplishments. . . . He informed me that he had been delegated by Senator Curtis as his [Curtis-for-President] campaign manager...
...amusements he works hard. He went into training last spring to be in shape to sail Enterprise. He smokes a pipe, seldom drinks. On Vara, in Newport, he does calesthenics on deck in pajamas. After breakfast he goes aboard Enterprise, wearing a business suit and a felt hat. to supervise the daily tinkering with the rigging. In the rain he wears a yellow slicker, but often sails the big yacht in shirtsleeves. When there is the slightest imperfection in the way the boat is handled in practice he puts about and goes through the maneuver over again. He speaks quietly...