Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shadow of "resentment," was the seance held by the Committee next day in a ballroom of the Hotel Commodore, Manhattan. Before the Senators arrived, there strode into the room a figure in blue serge and buttoned shoes, carrying a tan topcoat. The figure wore an almost white fedora hat instead of its traditional brown derby that was instantly recognizable, by the flash of gold in the smile, the jaunty salute to the newsgatherers, as Candidate Smith. When the Committee entered, this Candidate, minus fedora and topcoat, put his thumbs in his waistcoat and tilted back in the witness chair with...
Dwarfed only by the Divine Presence, stood His Majesty, George V. King and Emperor, with two sturdy pages to support his long crimson and white train. At one side of the Altar sat Her Majesty, Mary, Queen and Empress, clad in a long, shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve...
After the ousting, Mr. Broun issued a statement concluding: " 'Disloyalty,' unexplained, might mean to the reader anything from robbing the till to sitting on Ralph Pulitzer's hat...
...since 1909, when King Edward's Minoru won the Derby, has a Royal horse taken a race in England. Last week King George jumped up in a box at Newmarket, the Prince of Wales waved his hat, and the crowd yelled as Scuttle, the King's three-year-old filly, worked up smoothly to pass Lord Dewar's Jurisdiction and win the Thousand Guineas Stakes, worth $5,000 to the winner. Next morning every paper in London printed a picture of the King with a broad smile on his face...
Married. Michael Arlen, Armenian novelist (The Green Hat), of London; to Countess Atalanta Mercati; 22, daughter of Count Alexandre Mercati, former Chamberlain of the Court of Greece; at the Greek Orthodox Church, Cannes, France. During the elaborate ritual in which the bride relinquished her title for the official name of Mrs. Dikran Kuumjian, her gown caught fire from a burning ikon, was quickly extinguished. Only one prominent citizen of Cannes was absent: Mayor Andre Capron, 76, ill of shock suffered when a demented woman fired at him the morning of the ceremony...