Word: hatter
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...room! No room!" the Hatter and the March Hare cried out "when they saw Alice coming. "There's plenty of room," said Alice indignantly, and she sat down...
...quaint and wonderful business of making hats, an historic event took place last week. The John B. Stetson Co., largest hat dispenser in the world, bought out the Mallory Hat Co., one of the runners-up in the trade and the oldest hatter...
...began in 1863 when the first John Batterson Stetson, the sickly son of a New Jersey hatter, joined an expedition to Pike's Peak for his health. On the trip he startled his companions by scraping fur off raw hides, chewing it up, spitting the juice through his teeth to produce crude felt. The broad-brimmed beaver hat that he made with the felt was the butt of all the camp's jokes. But on the way back Stetson sold it to a St. Louis bullwhacker for $5 in gold, thereupon decided to go into business...
...outraged his father, a prosperous Manhattan hatter, by insisting on songwriting ("Why didn't you become a bootlegger and be done with it?"), turned out the suave scores of No, No, Nanette* and Flying Down to Rio before chronic illness blighted his career at full bloom...
Later, one Frederick Willis, an Edwardian survivor who accredited himself as "an old silk-hatter familiar with all the Great Hats of a great age," set the record straight: "The specimen ... is of the period of 1907 to 1914. The inverted pipe curl (not gutter, as stated) was conceived, not by a madman . . . but by a master born out of his time, like Picasso. He visualized a market of individualists, and his vision was inspired by deep study of 18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist...