Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife Claire, of San Marcos, Calif., boarded the Comet, night boat to Providence, R. I. Going through Hell Gate Channel in the East River, the purser told them there were no more staterooms. Mr. Charlton demanded the captain turn back. Captain Pendelton demurred. Mr. Charlton took off his hat. coat and shoes. "Come on, Claire," he shouted, jumped overboard, struck out for shore through treacherous currents where many a man has drowned. Impressed, Captain Pendelton ordered the Comet pulled up at North Brother Island, let Mrs. Charlton off, telephoned for a police launch to take her back. Meanwhile, her determined...
...took to be a busy broker's office, he stepped in to have a look at stock quotations. The hubbub of voices steadily increased, so did shouts of "1401!" Puzzled and amused by this chant. Mr. Loeser suddenly noticed that I he was surrounded. Someone jostled him. His hat was knocked off. Next thing he knew he was in the street, straightening his rumpled clothes, looking up into the red face of a bobby...
...Froth. About the only objections anyone in Wall Street had to making Bill Martin the first paid president of the Exchange were his extreme youth and the fact that he never wore a hat. Nothing could be done to increase his years, but as a condition of his election he was led aside, told he would have to wear a hat. That he now does as punctiliously as he does everything else...
Lieut.-Colonel Stewart S. Giffin (West Point, '13), Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A., stood trial before a general courtmartial. On and behind a pine table were twelve sabres, twelve senior officers. The court had to consider charges that Colonel Giffin: 1) did "maliciously knock the hat off the head of one Joseph Currao [a trucker], thereby precipitating a drunken brawl ... to the scandal and disgrace of the military service"; 2) did visit a residence at Goshen, N. Y., and, being refused admittance, "did then and there willfully create a shameful disturbance ... by trespassing ... in his stocking feet...
...pillars of U. S. politics. Scripps-Howard's cartoonist, Harold Talburt, caught the spirit of it in a drawing of Harry Hopkins and Harold Ickes, two urchins standing on the magic table of Franklin the Great, hoisting a third-term rabbit out of the absent wizard's hat...