Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith technique during parades: sweep the hat, inclusively, at nearby crowds. Grin squarely at this person, then that. Answer cries with a comeback now and then. Scan crowds at distant windows; single out one group, grin and wave the hat straight at the group. A distant concerted cheer will come back. People in the street look up. Everyone cheers...
Last month, an unmirthful man smiled mechanically for photographers, took off his hat and put it on again, glanced with interest at New Jersey's Palisades, and walked down the gangplank of the Homeric to Manhattan. From beneath his drooping mustache, he mumbled that "only suffering came from the World War." He then hastened to take a train for Toronto, where he knew that more newsgatherers, more photographers, would make progress difficult. For to no great city of the world could Alfred Moritz Mond, first Baron Melchett, come unobserved, unheralded...
Thus the Melchett month ended. Having possibly merged, having certainly titillated, Tycoon Melchett prepared to stride unmirthfully up the gangplank, take off his hat and put it on again, glance at the dark Palisades, and sail"for England...
David Lloyd George, strode, for the first time in his long life, upon a public race track. He wore a light blue hat, dark blue coat, many-colored bow tie. He seemed happy to see the horses run and lather; but he placed no bets. He, a Welsh Baptist, has long found his strongest support among sections of the British public which frown upon horse racing. Yet he caused more excitement at the track than the horses themselves...
...play on the part of officers of the peace comes nearer home with the assault on a Harvard student by a policeman of three weeks standing. The complications of violated traffic signals and the search for a stolen car happily caused no more damage than the puncturing of a hat. But a change of a few degrees in the course of the bullet would have meant death...