Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Edward etc. Lord Salisbury sat up abruptly, raised his gleaming silk hat, bowed amiably to his colleagues...
...great Lord Salisbury's son replaced his hat, subsided...
Parliament has an appropriate ceremony for almost anything that may occur. Then and there Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy, Speaker of the House, inflicted the official censure upon Laborite Sandham. Looking as dignified as anyone can under a woolly white wig with a black three- cornered hat balanced precariously on top, Speaker Fitzroy sat in his chair, faced the standing, embarrassed libelous Elijah, and intoned...
...BRASS HAT IN NO MAN'S LAND? Brig.-Gen. F. P. Crozier?Cape & Smith...
...typical brass hat (staff officer) was Brig.-General Frank Percy Crozier, 119th Infantry Brigade, British Expeditionary Force. Professional soldier descended from a long line of professional soldiers, he fought in South Africa, Ashanti, North Nigeria, Zululand, then retired from the army. In 1914 he joined the Royal Irish Fusiliers with the rank of Captain. During the next five years he won the D.S.O., C.M.G., C.B., Croix de Guerre with palm, was mentioned seven times in despatches, left the War a Brigadier. A capable officer, a soldier who knew his trade, General Crozier has no illusions about war, tells his trade...