Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiberio, his prize-winning canvas (see cut) shows an embarrassed but happy pair of young South American Negroes, all dressed up in their Sunday best and perched primly on the edge of an emerald green sofa. Elvira has a gay wreath of pink poppies around her Dolly Vardon hat. Tiberio's immaculate white linen suit is set off by a magnificent striped shirt...
Opening ballets were The Three-Cornered Hat, Scheherazade and Aurora's Wedding, all from the Diaghilev repertory. Settings were by Picasso, Bakst and Benois. all Diaghilev artists. First night cheers went to the youthful ballerinas, Irina Baronova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova. Leonide Massine, the maitre de ballet, was still the surest-footed dancer. David Lichine and Yurek Shavelevsky made the most sensational leaps. After twelve days in Manhattan, the troupe takes to the road again, visits no cities, gives 212 performances in the U. S. and Canada...
...Bryan sat in an arm chair on a float and talked to the crowd that lined the shore of a lagoon. A narrow strip of water separated Bryan from the crowd on shore. A large cotton umbrella sheltered his bald head, and sometimes he wore a broad-brimmed white hat. He joked with his audiences about his frequent campaigns for President, and he spoke to them of the general glories of the Florida climate. After the address, which lasted about one hour, people crowded up to shake hands. Then Gilda Gray danced for the same real estate company...
...date, the Governor has never met. True to the tradition of bashfulness expected of those who seek the nation's highest office, Governor Landon served notice that when he goes to address the Ohio Chamber of Commerce next month, it will not be to throw his battered hat in the ring, but to speak "only about Kansas." Speaking only about Kansas last week he said: "I am extremely flattered by the Presidential talk, but these are difficult times and I owe the people of Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover...
...waiter named George W. Fullerton. Among the defendants, the jurors observed President Ned Depinet of RKO Distributing Corp., President George Schaefer of Paramount Pictures Distributing Co. and Warner Brothers' sleek little President Harry Warner who found it hard to conceal his chagrin when excited Lawyer Reed mistook his hat, which had fallen on the floor, for a spittoon, used it accordingly...