Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...means of "security." The French threat to the peace of the world lies elsewhere -- in France. For in France, and only in France, a new situation exists: the armament makers are no longer, like Alfred Krupp or Sir Basil Zaharoff in his younger days, humble petitioners of government, hat-in-hand solicitors of orders--their influence is so infiltrated into the industrial, social, and political affairs of the nation that they have power in some ways beyond the State; a power so mighty that they are all but able, for their own individualistic reasons, to sweep the State along...
...Alfred--a strange figure who wore wooden sabots when he visited his factory, opened his window once a month, had a bathtub in his parlor, assembled his intimates in his own devising, and carried a steel walking stick. Alfred Krupp began as a humble petitioner of governments, coming hat in hand to ministers, kings, and emperors of assorted nationalities to beg orders for his guns. By the time of his death he was an intimate of Wilhelm I, 1870 conquerer of France. He was also an officer of the French Legion of Honor (one of Napoleon III's earlier generosities...
Next day the public schools opened as usual, laid plans to run extra shifts for the parochial pupils. Threatened with tar & feathers, Prophet Voliva declared himself a two-gun man ready to kill at the drop of a hat. Then he announced that he would reopen all but the lower grades of his parochial school, require every pupil to take an oath of allegiance to him. Satan and his imps would try to destroy the world sometime in September, he said, and he needed an organization "like Hitler's" to combat them...
...sentimental hangover, but as a tune so fresh and melodic that many a youngster thought it was new. Jack Norworth wrote "Harvest Moon" when he and Nora Bayes were married. They sang it in the first Ziegfeld Follies in which Nora wore a white muslin dress, a floppy hat and Jack white flannels, a long blue coat and a pancake straw. The World-Telegram devotes its piece to Norworth, now a stalky, white-haired man who sells cocktail biscuits to supplement his royalties. ("Harvest Moon" has earned him some...
...smokes innumerable cigarettes, without removing them from his mouth; from this is derived, no doubt, in an attempt to escape the smoke, the tilt of his head and the squint of his eyes. Nights he is to be seen returning from Hazen's beer parlor, an aged grey slouch hat perched on his head, and the eternal butt in his mouth...