Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...devout Jews, Catholics, Protestants," or what not, wear our faith deep within us, a fundamental principle of Christian conduct and attitude, or is it merely a chip on our shoulders, to be knocked ignominiously into a cocked hat by a little chance phrase...
...casual observer, the Hall of Mirrors in Cincinnati's Hotel Netherland Plaza might have been mistaken for a hat factory last week. Six long tables littered with headgear-straws of every shape, felts of every color-stretched like assembly lines the length of the room. The long lines of men who sat along both sides of the tables were assembling not hats but a plan of campaign against their rival brothers of toil. They were the representatives of 102 national and international unions,* members of the A. F. of L. They had been called together by the Federation...
...fight. Tom Gallery, onetime cinemactor and onetime husband of ZaSu Pitts, promoted it. Walter Winchell and Gene Fowler reported it. It was watched by Clark Gable & Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power & Sonja Henie, Robert Taylor & Barbara Stanwyck. It caused Constance Bennett to screech and Darryl Zanuck to wear his Tyrolean hat. Ringside seats at Wrigley Field cost $100.* It was enhanced by an airplane with a streamer advertising Kid Galahad (TIME...
...only the great are painted by Britain's adept portraitists. Genteel humor has never been despised by the Royal Academy. Year ago Caricaturist George Belcher, who stalks about Chelsea in a large black hat and satin stock and who prefers char ladies and costermongers for models, made headlines at the Academy with a portrait of a fat man playing a cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn...
...Brown Derby and cigar with which he had had himself photographed on his arrival in Rome, Al Smith had substituted, before his audience, the required full dress and top hat. Kneeling, he received the Papal blessing, then had a chance to chat privately with His Holiness, with Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, rector of Rome's North American College, interpreting. To Pius XI, Mr. Smith offered a ten-inch gold model of the Empire State Building, volunteering the dimensions of his skyscraper when the Holy Father confessed that he had never ascended a structure higher than the Eiffel Tower...