Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chemical industry. Col. Herman A. Metz, vice president and treasurer of American I. G. and one of the chief objects of the Garvan fury, said, "Frank thinks he is doing a great public service, but doesn't know the War is over, and is talking through his hat." He added that 95% of all dyes are now made in the U. S. and that U. S. concerns are selling dyestuffs in Germany in direct competition with I. G. Farbenindustrie...
...head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...
Undergraduate squash players are now on the path towards the creation of the "Harvard topcoat" following the model of the "Harvard hat." While one carelessly throws down his hat in the dirt with the air of one authorized by tradition, he hesitates to deposit his overcoat with equal complacence upon the well-oiled floors of the University squash courts. Indeed, a hat in the last stages of dilapidation can be explained away as due to "indifference", but it is difficult with equal propriety to dismiss a soiled and much trampled-over topcoat as caused by a similar disregard for convention...
Newsmen also asked Rear Admiral Moffatt, chief adviser on naval aviation to the U. S. delegation, why he was in mufti, why he had bought a shiny new silk hat...
Shortly after noon, William Fox, coat collar turned up, snap-brim hat bent down over his face, arrived to give his verdict, to choose between the new trusteeship or receivership. So momentous did he consider the occasion he let his photo be taken, for the first time in 15 years. Looking straight ahead, he hurried into the building, entered Judge Coleman's private office. The attorneys waited outside, hoping that this day would see an end to one of the greatest tangles of recent financial history. An hour and a half later the Fox answer came. Judge Coleman, alone...