Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cricket team of Burnley, England: a game from Raw Tenstall, 222 to 116, in the course of which Bowler Joseph Boon twice performed "the hat trick...
...hat trick: Knocking down three wickets with three successive balls...
...head of a table ringed with 33 crepe-decked chairs stood Charles Lockwood, 87, of Chamberlain. S. Dak. Tears ran down his wrinkled cheeks as he opened the bottle of wine. ''After our experiences in that war . . . it seemed funny to us." he said. "But now (hat I am last I see no humor in it." He filled his glass, held it aloft and recited as the Club had specified long ago: The camp fire smoulders-ashes jail; The clouds are black athwart the sky; No tap of drums, no bugle call; My comrades, all, Goodbye! He sipped...
...Indians, veterans' care. On the first two, at least, he is an expert along party lines. In appearance he tries to resemble Bryan, facially better resembles Benjamin Franklin. He is heavyset, bobbed-haired, mild-mannered. He dresses in the traditional rusty-grey frock coat, the wide-brimmed black hat of Bryan and the oldtimers, which helps distinguish him among the more babbitty modern members. In the House his voice assumes a peculiar, almost clerical (but not monotonous) drone. Then he is meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker. His own faith is the Episcopalian...
Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy, usually in a brown sweater, white trousers, a canvas hat, a blue shirt with a red necktie, made Yankee look smart beating Enterprise the first day. Yankee carried a single big jib and jib topsail in place of her usual double head rig. Her weakness with this rig was that she sagged off badly to leeward. Whirlwind's trouble was an addiction to bad starts. On the second day, racing Yankee, Skipper Paul Hammond on Whirlwind left the straight course and veered toward shore looking for a wind, found one, beat Secretary Adams...