Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less a permanent fixture in Cambridge than Memorial Hall or the Lampoon's annual wheeze about Freshman advisers is David Dickinson '20, the big man with the broad brimmed hat, who for fifteen years has on fair days followed the fire engines in a red three-wheeled contraption that looks like a cross between a kiddie-car and a barber's chair...
Producer Davenport keeps his playhouse going by the sale of a few reserved seats and by passing the hat during intermissions. Most nights, during the final intermission, Davenport steps before the curtain draped in a sheet, harangues the audience for 15 or 20 minutes. The theatre is unqualifiedly his to run. He chooses plays, writes them, directs them. He also stokes the furnace and sweeps the aisles...
...batteries beneath her skirt to light 1,500 tiny bulbs sprinkled on her dress, wore a red neon headgear which flashed intermittent lightning. As "The Empire State Building Plans'' she wore T-squares and French scrolls around her neck, pencils and empty India ink bottles on her hat. For the New York World's Fair she planned a beach hat featuring a Trylon and a Perisphere topped by a lobster...
...work in a typical district under the direction of a typical manager. I take my hat off to him. . . . In no other job could I have such independence and, at the same time, done as well financially and have had such mental satisfaction which after all is that which counts most...
Last year Douglas G. Hertz of Rockleigh, N. J., a millionaire horseman, founded the Pegasus Club of New Jersey for horse enthusiasts. To Anna's party last week he invited 15 proletarian nags and one mule. In favor hats (with holes for their ears), looking as giddy as tipsy old maids on New Year's Eve, the horses munched carrots and greens, then champed into a heavily iced birthday cake. Afterward Anna was awarded a special hat-lavender with an ostrich feather-as the most glamorous horse present. But in the contest for work horse with longest service...