Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spectators in a crowded courtroom in Kansas City stirred expectantly one day last week when a trim young woman clad in a grey dress and a white hat climbed onto the witness stand. She was Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City's City Manager. Two months prior she had been abducted for $30,000 ransom (TIME, July...
...Observers at the Conference eyed with interest stocky, rufous, sly-smiling President Leon Fraser of the B. I. S. Would he pop a plan for world finance before the Conference broke up? "Only like a hat trick at the last moment, if at all," was his evasive answer. And he popped no plan...
Once supposed to ride in a limousine with bullet-proof glass because he feared assassination, Benito Mussolini has recently taken to riding a motorcycle, setting informal fashions in dress. Though he sometimes still wears a top hat and cutaway. // Duce decided last week that in the case of lesser Fascist officials even occasional display of such formal clothes should be discouraged. In Rome the Fascist party's Spartan Secretary General, Signer Achille Starace, sent out to all Fascist officials last week the following six-point general guide to official behavior...
...Third. At official ceremonies do not wear a silk hat and do wear the simple black shirt of the revolution...
...charge of having falsified his bank's books, was arraigned in court on a stretcher. In May 1933, Banker Harriman, having escaped from a sanitarium to suburban Long Island, futilely pinked his bosom with a butcher knife. Last week Banker Harriman, wearing a grey suit and a Panama hat, walked into court to stand trial...