Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army Khaki uniform, complete with one bar on shoulder with a Sam Browne belt and hat. Harding Uniform & Regalia Co., Coast Guard insignia, Boston...
...allowed to drop by the wayside, the Association of Manufacturers has summoned up a luxurious array of statistics. Billens are oast about like rios at a wedding. The trump card is twenty billion dollars, which we are told, would be thrown into factory expension at the drop of a hat. The hat is the Roosevelt social reform program. But if Frank Lloyd Wright is to be believed when he says that there is nothing so timid as a million dollars, the reticence of twenty billion hardly needs description...
...TIME, April 8, I read to my surprise "Little Anthony Eden was a healthily snobbish Eton schoolboy in tails, starched collar and high hat every day of the week...
...Starched collar and high hat," yes. "Snobbish," most emphatically. But "tails," no, a thousand times NO! ... A complete absence of tail is the salient feature of the Eton jacket. Its brief and ridiculous course terminates abruptly and without reason in the small of the back, and this gives it its vulgar but popular name of "Bottom-starver." This was indelibly impressed upon me well over 50 years ago when I was a schoolboy in a Lancashire factory town, and a well-meaning but misguided aunt donated an Eton jacket to help out the clothing problem of a large family...
...hat and cutaway ("the old suit I go to funerals in"), the President accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, her sister-in-law Mrs. Gracie Hall Roosevelt, and Bodyguardsman Gus Gennerich wearing a new spotted necktie, celebrated Easter by attending services at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church...