Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lives today in an apartment on a street called Linwood Place in St. Paul, Minn. Aged 68, he is tall, rawboned, mustached. His eyes are pale blue. He dresses neatly and simply-black hat, oldtime wash necktie (or a hook-on bow), celluloid collar. His automobile is a 1927 Studebaker. He does not drive it. Neither does he drive golf or tennis balls. He chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week...
...might be seized in France and brought home to account for concealing from the Government his profits in Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's Continental Trading Co. five years ago (TIME, June 4), was still in France last week. He was moving in Paris "disguised"' in slouch hat and horn spectacles. He was, said newsgatherers, dodging newsgatherers, not Government officials. He did not fear extradition, they said, because he could not be extradited unless a French court said so, and a French court was not likely to say so because falsifying an income tax blank is not considered perjury...
...Brown Derby in his silk hat was thus with some levity taking leave of a crowd which was as the sands for multitude. Finally he shook the hand of insistent Jimmy Ruggil, 10, and got into the private car, "St. Nicholas," attached to the 20th Century, Chicago-Albany...
...woman standing on the steps of the New York Public Library. Having glanced, she probably made a mark in the notebook she held in her hand. She may have noted the color of your stockings, the cut of your suit, the length of your skirt, the shape of your hat. You had become a statistic...
Died. Arthur J. Lamb, oldtime writer ("Asleep in the Deep," "The Naughty Little Bird on Nellie's Hat," etc.); of an embolism; in Providence...