Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three Army hostlers went back to regular service. The sum of $15,000 was saved. These White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
...train arrived at the Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan at 7.45 p.m. People cheered. He lifted a brown fedora hat in response. He went to room 1423 (a $25-per-day suite) in the Hotel Commodore, adjoining the station. There, barricaded against the world, Calvin Coolidge attended to private business...
...representative−her famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank−had hung doggedly to $332,000,000 as the greatest sum the Reich could possibly pay. Last week, however, he appeared so struck by the figure $420,000,000 that, clapping on a Hamburg hat and greatcoat, he caught the Nord Express for Germany...
...many a microphone that if returned to the Prime Ministry, which he held in 1924, he will nationalize coal and related industries, and operate them to provide work at a living wage for the jobless. Meanwhile jaunty David Lloyd George, the Welsh Wizard of Liberalism, waves his empty silk hat and promises (TIME, March 25) to conjure out of it enough borrowed money to keep all the unemployed busy on road building and public works for five years. The steady-going fellow with the umbrella is Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, imperturbable leader of the Conservatives. He has spent...
Newspaper cartoonists for a decade have clothed the college undergraduate in raccoon-skin coat, baggy trousers, battered and blighted felt hat. Such were the sacerdotal vestments of the initiate "collegian." But last week, Princeton's witty and learned Dean Christian Gauss hailed the passing of the coonskin. Said he: "Undergraduates who wear coonskin coats now are not nearly so jaunty about it as they used to be; they are quite properly a little shamefaced. Their Eskimoish enduements are relics of the past age of 'collegiatism.' Students now wear them for lack of polo coats or Chesterfields...