Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...light airs rolled the sea into innumerable gay reflections of summer, the America's Cup yachts sailed their first official trials off Newport, R. I. On Vincent Astor's Nourmahal the skippers met and sat around a table while Commodore Astor drew four slips of paper out of a hat, each with the name of a yacht on it. It had been decided that yacht A would race B the first day, and C the second, D the third, with the order changing correspondingly for the other boats in each race. Three times they raced to a mark and back...
...Dressed in silk hat and long-tailed coat he approached Girard College, Philadelphia, to give an address. Explained the watchman, barring Dr. Wiley: "Stephen Girard laid down in his will that no minister of the Gospel be permitted to enter these grounds." Dr. Wiley: "The hell you say!" Watchman: "Walk right...
...words of our Duce were opportune and justified. ... He had foreknowledge of the military preparations of France [i.e. the inclusion of $40,000,000 for military expenditures in the current French budget]. . . . Nobody in the world can have the colossal impudence to believe (hat the gigantic program of French armaments are in consequence of Signor Mussolini's speeches...
...Twenty thousand Rotarians walking the streets of Chicago . . . not a one has been shot or robbed. It looks like negligence." The occasion: Rotary International's Silver Anniversary Convention, held last week in Chicago, birthplace of Rotary. Some 15,000 delegates attended, fortified with good cheer, name plates, geographical hat-bands, freedom of the city...
Died. Robert C. Montgomery, 43, president of Long's Hat Store Corp., vice president of Knox Hat Co. ; of pneumonia ; at Stamford, Conn...