Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeper's neck; rat exterminator which snapped a collar with bell attached on the rat; electrocuter of bedbugs; eyeglasses for chickens to keep them from being pecked by other chickens; small round-pointed drill to produce dimples; egg-marker to be attached to the hen; automatic hat-tipper, to work which the user needs only to bow his head; combined rocking-chair and churn...
Dean of Manhattan's bookmakers, "Long Tom" Shaw, 6 ft. 3, grey-haired, with a diamond stickpin in his tie, a grey felt hat over his shrewd Irish face, has been taking bets at New York tracks since 1906. At Belmont Park and other New York tracks his stool is No. i in the. line of bookmakers in the betting shed. The odds chalked on his slate are highly respected by his confreres. A onetime New Orleans bicycle-racing champion, Tom Shaw, now 60, rides in an open Rolls Royce...
...knit collar, the other a white. From a tower the judge watched sharply to see which dog took the lead at the start, which turned the rabbit at a right angle, which made the kill. He raised a red or white flag to name the winner, doffed his hat to indicate a tie & runoff...
...stamped her foot so loudly that the Vagabond awoke from his reverie. He put on his hat, plucked a bud from a tree and started for the circus...
...walking unescorted through a city street when an evil-looking Negro buck darts toward her, slugs her over the head with a rock, seizes her purse, darts away. Up to the curb glides a La Salle limousine. Out of it steps a gentleman in full evening dress and top hat. With a few nimble bounds, he overtakes the fleeing Negro, pinions him fast. Then from his pocket the gentleman whips a gleaming pen knife. Deftly he slits the Negro's throat from ear to ear. Returning to the young woman, who has now recovered, the immaculate avenger doffs...