Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aircraft carriers Saratoga and Lexington, the presidential salute of 21 guns per ship plus the "Star-Spangled Banner" by each ship's band, came muffled from a mile away downwind. Alert at first, then seemingly lost in thought, the central figure stood with his fedora hat on during most of the spectacle. He did not reply when white-whiskered old Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, soon-retiring Chief of Naval Operations,* ejaculated as the dreadnaughts passed: "I tell you those ships are the backbone of the Fleet...
...waited 150 airplanes, with all motors thundering, all propellers whirring brightly in the sun, mechanics in varicolored costumes moving among them in the artificial gale their blades created, to make final meticulous adjustments. In "sky forward" (crow's nest) of the Lexington, in rumpled grey suit and floppy hat, the Navy's prime War ace, Lieut. David Sinton Ingalls, now Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, squinted down upon the scene, watching the flight officers' red flag on the bridge below. When a white flag appeared, their show would begin...
Temple Tower (Fox). This is an attempted sequel to Bulldog Drummond, a picture hailed by critics as one of the best crook stories ever filmed. Temple Tower is silly, complicated. Kenneth McKenna, a slim and boyish sleuth who dresses in dinner clothes and an opera hat even while staying in a town defined by the local innkeeper as "the loneliest place in England," is engaged in tracking down an elderly emerald thief who lives in a tower equipped with bloodhounds, secret passages, a beautiful girl, and a masked hunchback with a penchant for strangling people with his bare hands. Typical...
...work, viz: Six trips across the U. S., including the above record; opening two mail routes to South America (Miami-Paramaribo, Miami-Buenos Aires); air explorations of Indian ruins in New Mexico and Arizona, and Mayan ruins in Yucatan; stunt flying with the Navy's high hat squadron at the Cleveland air races; displaying how easy it is to learn to glide; flying altogether about 30,000 miles in all sorts of machines, in all sorts of weather-always safely, surely, incomparably...
Little over a year ago President Henry Fairfield Osborn of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History made dire threats to his directors. He was irked by the annual hat-passing made necessary by the Museum's perennial deficit. If new endowment was not forthcoming, said he, the following would be apt to happen: dismissal of 35 employes, stoppage of support for field expeditions, reduction of publications, suspension of other museum work...