Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast to the departure for Paris of Ambassador Edge, that other Senator also just beginning a diplomatic career, nobody asked Ambassador Sackett to make any farewell speeches. Nobody gave him any parting banquets. Nobody serenaded him with bands. Nobody threw flowers at him. There were no cheers, no frenzied hat-waving...
...with extreme emphasis on the broad A. He wears a full dress with the same elaborate nonchalance that he evidences when clad in unpressed tweeds and rumpled coat; canes are permissable on Park Avenue but are decidedly not correct in Harvard Square; he wears spats under no conditions. His hat is rumpled and decadent, giving a touch of elan to an otherwise spotless appearance. The typical specie has a fleet of luxurious motor cars, one for every mood, and a charge account at the leading night clubs in a half-dozen cosmopolitan cities...
...white hair combed back into a pompadour. Smooth-shaven, his Roman features have been burned dark by Iowa sunshine. A quick engaging smile reveals gleaming white teeth. Not at all the hayseed type of legislator, he wears conservatively cut grey sack suits, feels no embarrassment in cutaway and silk hat...
...burglar's mask, chased him downstairs, bashed him repeatedly on the head with his fist. Allowing the burglar to run out of the house, Dr. Partos returned upstairs to reassure Mrs. Partos who observed the burglar fleeing into Central Park. In his haste he had left his coat, hat and shoes in the house, was running madly in his stocking feet...
...cannot know how often in the Georgian he has spilled the coffee of the head of the Classical Department, or that the man whose hat has just blown off is Professor Whitehead...