Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Paul von Hindenburg went to Dietramszell, Bavaria, to shoot at chamois. Attired in mackintosh and with a gemsbart (chamois mane) stuck jauntily behind his green hunting hat, he was delighted when he brought down a buck. Not so delighted was he to learn that the Bavarian cabinet of Minister President Dr. Heinrich Held, who has been in office since 1924, had resigned after having failed to effect a higher slaughter tax. The bill would have added $2.000.000 annually to Bavaria's income by imposing a tax on all cattle butchered. There seemed to be little reason to believe that...
Luck, his pleasant appearance and his expertness in diseases of the stomach kept young Mr. Dawson from the bowler hat and satchel of the obscure English doctor. Minnie Ethel Yarrow, youngest daughter of Sir Alfred Fernandez Yarrow, the potent shipbuilder, was a chronic invalid. A doctor was always at her side. One day the regular man suddenly became ill. Dr. Dawson was handy, was summoned. He cured the girl. They fell in love, married...
...Johnson, scrofulous sage of the 18th Century; BEN Jonson, Elizabethan playwright: JACK Johnson, blackamoor pugilist. *In a floppy felt hat and a pair of khaki trousers, Markswoman Foster turned in a card of 280 out of a possible 300 at 300, 500, 600, 900, and 1,000 yards on a windy day. Runner-up was a ''man in skirts"-Lieut. Alexander Eccles, Seaforth Highlander, with...
...girdled green there bask the plains Where, with his timeless smiles. And mushroom hat, brown Vigour gains His spindling roots, his haulms, his grains- The Oriental Giles. Blunden looks long at familiar things; sometimes his best poetry is the result: Sprawl not so monster-like, blind mist; I know not "seems"; I am too old a realist To take sea-dreams From you, or think a great white Whale Floats through our hawthorn-scented vale- This foam-cold vale. So long and lovingly does he look that when he speaks, he tells of things many a reader's restless...
...Brass Hat in No Man's Land has raised a squall of controversy in England. Soldier Crozier's frankness has enraged many an old soldier, many a brass hat, many a colonel. Next October he is coming to lecture...