Word: hats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President saw trundled by a little cart bearing a keg, jugs, empty gin bottles festooned in crêpe paper. He heard crowds yelling: "There's something for Hoover to swallow! What do you think of that, Mr. Hoover? Hurrah for Ritchie! Stand up, Bert! Take off your hat! Bow! You're all wet, Ritchie!" As the Wet demonstration continued under his nose the President's round face lost its affable smile and the corners of his mouth went down into a grim expression. After he had returned silently to Washington, the V. of F. W. went...
...custody of children. Over 60, Judge Bartlett is happily married, the father of three daughters and a son. Short, benign, he wears his long white hair bobbed across the back, bald in front. He smokes a pipe, carries a light cane, affects black string neckties and Quakerish felt hat. He lives three blocks from the courthouse in a big rambling house, open to all, keeps no servant, is familiarly called "Judgie". He attends Reno's endless round of cocktail parties, socializes with the city's smart divorce-seekers, declares: "I'm Wet, damned...
...famed and battered old black derby, Dr. Irigoyen, sick to the point of lethargy, was rushed by friends in a motor car to the city of La Plata, some 35 miles from Buenos Aires. Arrested there by troops of General Uriburu, the old man took off his hat, stood fiddling with it before the officer who had arrested...
...your hat!" barked the fallen Dictator's doctor who had accompanied him. Then to the officers, "He must wear his hat-pneumonia...
...Well, if I may?" said once omnipotent Dr. Irigoyen humbly and, as the officer nodded, he put on his hat. On certificate of the garrison physician that he really had pneumonia, El Hombre went not to jail but into a barrack bed. Pen and paper were brought. Feebly but without hesitation the sick man wrote his resignation...