Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without pausing to remove hat & overcoat, portly Dr. Clendening strode around to the valve and feed pipe of the air-compressor supplying the pneumatic drills. Sock! Crack! went the ax. The drills fell silent, but not Dr. Clendening. At the marveling WPAsters he roared...
Paul Kerins '42, Sophomore Government concentrator who recently tossed a hat loaded with dynamite into the Brookline political ring and is campaigning for election to the School Committee, yesterday turned pamphleteer and distributed 5,000 mimeographed leaflets, urging the voters to "Elect Kerins for School Committee...
Association of Patriotic American Citizens is what Mr. Reynolds called his movement. The button he will issue spells out VINDICATOR. A red-white-&-blue feather in the hat is a further insignia. Last week Senator Reynolds said he figured on 1,000,000 by June for a convention at St. Louis. He thought 5,000,000 would join eventually. Said he: "If I am selected to head the movement, I should be highly honored. This is a mass movement of Americans to restore America to Americans...
Class & Classical. There is, in fact, reason in the theory that losing his direction during the War and being flattered by a lot of fancy literary people, Picasso has found since little to do but pull rabbits out of his hat for easy applause-and easy money. The alternate theory is that this tough, unschooled, brilliant little man has responded subtly to the intellectual insights and disorders of his time, has created in paint their diverse and furious images. Unbiased observers think both theories are partly true...
...statesman should be known by one or two features, not for a variety. Monocle and orchid were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...