Word: hatter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Heads. The hatter deals with heads as much as with hats, and many a famed head, including the heads of 23 U. S Presidents, has been protected and ornamented with Knox hats. The hatter, of course, takes a bird's-eye view of heads and in the Knox files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part...
Charles was apprenticed to Leary & Co., famed hatters of 105 Broad St. After learning his trade at a salary of $25 a year, he was given a $250 bonus and a $10 a week job. Still not quite 20 years old, Charles Knox opened the first Knox shop at 110 Fulton St. So small was his store that only one customer at a time could be accommodated. Thus the shop became known as the Hole in the Wall, a title which many a small retailer has since appropriated. But many a hat came out of the hole and Hatter Knox...
Another window contains the original drawings of Tenniel to illustrate "Alice in Wonderland. Among familiar faces may be seen "Father William", the "Mad Hatter," and the "Rabbit" as they first made their bows to the world...
...concentration on the virus theory, which is still in need of more conclusive evidence, throws the spotlight of controversy on the ferment theory. That too demands more research. Cancer controversialists agitate the Mur-phy-Rous experiments, eagerly await the forthcoming volume on the virus theory by Dr. Gye and Hatter Joseph Edwin Barnard which is now in preparation...
...Arlenesque suavity of this reference to his "hatter," was offset by the perceptive wit of the Colonel's other comments: "It is time the public started land-sliding. It surprises me that they didn't start sooner. If this is the beginning of the end, I am more or less ready for it. However, these adverse comments won't take away my appetite. All I ask is that they don't take away the air I fly through. I'll take care of the rest...