Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Municipal government is notoriously bad but I doubt very much that even our Philadelphia authorities ever permitted Everett Shinn and ''a one-eyed Civil War veteran" to spend a night ''sitting on the 3-ft. hat brim of the 37-ft. statue of William Penn" atop our monstrous City Hall, as stated in your issue of March...
...deeply absorbed in the technique of broken color painting and already wracked with arthritis. The Durand-Ruel pictures were for the most part in Renoir's early manner. Outstanding were a luscious Bather and a self-portrait of the old gentleman in a white duck hat...
Slips of paper numbered from 0 to 18 are placed in a hat and eight brokers draw. The rest of the slips are discarded. Trading in a hypothetical stock then begins. At the end of the game the sum of the numbers on the eight slips represents the closing price of the stock but in the meantime each broker knows only his own number. The lowest possible total for any eight slips is 28 (the sum of the numbers from 0 to 7). Highest is 116, the average 72. Thus, if a broker draws a very low number, he knows...
...Vagabond puts on his hat and coat and slams gaily out of his room. He lights a pipe and strolls out along the parkway and up towards the Square. Sounds of revelry arrest him as he passes a pub on Mt. Auburn Street. He pokes his head in the door. Waves of noise beat him back, but a warm blue sign over the bar lures...
...lights turn down and a waiter begins to mop the floor. The Vagabond gets up, puts on his hat and coat, and goes out. A cold rain is falling on Mt. Auburn Street...