Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor's hat blew over the low double fence around the lion pit. Obligingly after it hopped one Stanley Stenson, 25, a zoo truck driver. His ami was stretched through the second fence when, like a cat after a bird, a lion leaped, sank its great fangs, pulled him down into the pit. Three...
...whipped out a 125,000-word "Princeton Plan" of governmental reorganization which showed New Jersey's rulers how by judicious savings and new revenues they could add $14,000,000 to the State's income (TIME. July 3). The State's Press swept off its hat and talked of Dodds for Governor. "Nothing," says Harold Willis Dodds with this record behind him and Princeton's presidency in hand, "has ever happened to me." Almost the only color in his life is the mercurochrome he put on the fingers of Nicaraguan voters to prevent them from repeating...
...afternoon last week U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery left the front door of his Embassy in Havana and walked down the street in his cutaway and high hat-nonchalantly as became a diplomat. He proceeded straight to the door of the Presidential Palace where, as he arrived, a band on the terrace played "The Star Spangled Banner" and "El himno bayames." Marching inside while the guns of Cabanas Fortress across the bay boomed a 21-gun salute, he received profuse protestations of pleasure from President Carlos Mendieta y Montefur. There was bravery in Ambassador Caffery's walk from...
...Mayor Stewart and the city fathers expected them at the side entrance for a private reception in the Mayor's office. Minutes passed before word of the mixup reached Mayor Stewart who rushed down to find the representative of the Crown red as a beet under his plumed hat, and already seated on the reviewing stand waiting for the parade to begin. Stammering apologies Mayor Stewart asked his Lordship if he would care to come back for the reception...
UNFINISHED CATHEDRAL-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week Thomas Sigismund Stribling hung his hat in the U. S. Hall of Fame. From unconsidered and inconsiderable beginnings he had made his slow, steady way to the forefront of U. S. letters. When in 1931 he published the first part (The Forge) of his triple-decker novel of the South, it caused little stir. The second volume (The Store) won him the Pulitzer Prize and was chosen by the Literary Guild. Last week appeared the final part of Author Stribling's trilogy (Unfinished Cathedral), which in turn was chosen...