Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME itself may assume some responsibility for my use of the figure for it really grew out of the half-nude banker figure published on Sept. 12, 1935 and in the following issue flatteringly mentioned by TIME. If ridiculous half-dressed, I assumed that wholly nude excepting for a hat and cane he would be a very good symbol for the "Old Deal," those who, in both parties, were generally regarded as stand pat and conservative and for whom the donkey and elephant were useless as symbols. Nude indeed he was at first but several letters apprized...
...catch (see cut). The accustomed massive aplomb of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin was accelerated until the Prime Minister became one day last week a palpitating and perspiring fat man dashing between No. 10 Downing St. and Buckingham Palace in an atmosphere so agitated that he even forgot his hat...
Uruguay's Foreign Minister, José Espalier, a fluent orator who was trained for the law but never practiced it, who at 70 looks like anything but the rich man that he is. His hat is always crushed, due to his habit of carrying it under his left arm, and over his wing collar his cheeks are always bristly since he uses a barber's clippers instead of a razor...
...belongs to the Curzon school of high-hat diplomacy and it was a triumph of U. S. diplomacy when he waved that hat at Mr. Hull...
...Drop a hat, dear, drop a hat...