Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give you the money but we can't make you borrow it from us. ... We're more liberal than any lender on a large scale since the beginning of the world but we're not dropping taxpayers' money into the hat of a blind...
...penalty for shouting "Heil Hitler!" ("Hail Hitler!") or any other Nazi slogan in Czechoslovakia. Last week Prague chuckled at the zeal of a town judge in Jagerndorf. Before the judge was brought a prosperous Silesian businessman arrested in peculiar circumstances. He pleaded that the wind had blown off his hat, that he was chasing it shouting "Mein Hütle!" ("My hat!"). "You were not!" snapped the arresting policeman. "You were yelling 'Heil Hitler!'" Taking the policeman's word, the judge sentenced the hat-chaser to one month in jail...
...Majordomo at Lake Hopatcong is Ellis Rowlands, a Welsh ex-actor still shaken by his experience in the Black Watch during the War. It is Rowlands, wearing footman's livery, who meets you at the door when you go to see Mr. Cook. Rowlands takes your hat and coat, goes to a window, opens it, coolly throws the garments out. The smiling host then asks the footman to tell Meadows to bring the cocktails in. Meadows, in the dark livery of a butler, appears instantly. Meadows is Rowlands. He sets the drinks down, whips off three and departs...
...kept and a pair of monkeys have recently been added to the collection. There is also a moth eaten stuffed tiger whose tail is falling off, that was, according to one of the professors, rescued from the rubbish heap of the University museum and is now used as a hat rack by the students...
...Best big-hat customer is Tom Mix, who buys them by the dozen, white or cream. Another is Publisher Amon Giles Carter of Fort Worth who pays $40 to $125 each, gives them away to Fort Worth visitors such as Lord Rothermere, Will Rogers, Jack Dempsey...