Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marvelous demonstration I have ever seen." Shortly thereafter, when his secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson grew ill, he took her home. But Governor Lehman still wore his smile. Grover Whalen kept banging the railing in front of him and singing "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here." The top hat of fat Mayor O'Brien still flashed its professional greeting, even after he was roundly booed by the Wall Street contingent, angered by the Mayor's new tax program...
...intermittently from Siberia to the Pyrenees. In the spring the male amazes observers and the female by standing on the tips of trees making extraordinary sounds and gestures. In winter it feeds exclusively on pine needles, tastes of turpentine. The short, iridescent, curling tail feathers, highly prized for Tyrolean hat ornaments, though called capercailzie plumes, actually come from its smaller cousin the blackcock...
...16th from the centre station. Now came the doubles, at stations Nos. 1, 2, 6 and 7. He powdered the first three pairs and moved to station No. 8, needing one to tie, two to win. As both targets fell in bits to earth he threw off his hat, called for his final, unnecessary bird and smashed that too, for a brilliant 98 and the Great Eastern title...
...come in sight. For 18 minutes until the last of the brokerage army had passed, the booing continued. In the rear of the reviewing stand Boss Curry of Tammany, who has the job of re-electing Mayor O'Brien in November, frowned under the brim of his silk hat...
...with a thick black mustache and a high forehead, Broker Stetson is a civic-minded Philadelphia socialite whose pet hobby is raising fish. His mother, who became the Countess Santa Eulalia of Portugal after old John Stetson's death, added $4,000,000 to Son Stetson's hat fortune when she died in 1929. As a director of John B. Stetson Co., Broker Stetson has watched his father's business become one of the largest fine hat-makers in the U. S. It still makes ten gallon models, but the bulk of its $5,000,000 annual...