Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Subject MacDonald can be said to owe each other much. Warm friends, they took their time, a whole hour of tea. Then the Prime Minister kissed hands and was Prime Minister no more. Driving away down the Mall, he passed Stanley Baldwin driving toward the Palace, and silk hat was gravely raised to silk hat. Mr. Baldwin, seated far back in the depths of his Daimler, was unnoticed by passers-by until he alighted to step on the red carpet of Buckingham Palace. In a hurry, he kissed hands and became Prime Minister about four minutes after Mr. MacDonald ceased...
...Soviet Russia has been to suppress and subjugate the famed Cossacks of the Don, for centuries Russia's boldest spirits, enjoying special immunities from the Tsar in return for their deathless loyalty and arrogant readiness to shoot down proletarian scum at the drop of a shaggy caracul hat. Some 20,000 members of the eleven Cossack tribes are now exiles, scattered throughout the world. Best known Cossack among non-Cossacks today is the distinguished War commander, General Peter Nikolaevitch Krasnov, blood-curdling author of such best sellers as From Double Eagle to Red Flag* and Napoleon and the Cossacks...
...start last week but the direction at least was blameless. While Schwab's pretty wife amazed St. Louis by playing golf in scanty shorts and a sunback bandanna, her husband rehearsed tirelessly for 14 hours a day. Producer Schwab's costume: baggy slacks, sweat shirt, worn felt hat. His results: a smooth performance, with no muffed lines, no backstage clatter, no long stage waits...
...Deal power program so alarmed Editor Merle Thorpe of Nation's Business that he was moved to ask: "Are we guarding the back door against bewhiskered aliens with bombs and torches and at the same time inviting Communism in the front door dressed up in top hat and frock coat?" When the editor of the Chamber of Commerce's houseorgan demanded the return of the "old order," powermen leaped cheering to their feet...
...Epsom Downs. So excited he could barely talk, a big brown man with a grey top hat and a plutocratic paunch jumped up & down in his box, rushed to the turf, squealing "Well done, Freddie! Thank you, thank you, Freddie!" An attendant whispered something into his ear which caused the brown man to recover his dignity, waddle quickly off to the box where King George, Queen Mary, Edward of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York and the rest of the royal family were sitting. There he shook hands with His Majesty, issued a more coherent statement of his satisfaction...