Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed by tenants on the floor below...
...there when Austria was absorbed into the Dritte Reich, and when I got here, and read the American newspapers, I was shocked at the undertone of antagonism that seemed to pervade all of them. I want you to know that there was uncheckable enthusiasm along every street (hat Nazi troops marched through. Of course, it is also true that before the troops ever came across the border, thousands of German spirit-stirrer-uppers, so to speak, had permeated all the strata of Vienna, and, joined by the frenzied local Nazis began whipping the enthusiasm of the people. You can readily...
Vice President Garner, who was amusing himself by trying to find a suitable Easter new hat (see cut), was rumored to disapprove and Senator Pat Harrison was noncommittal. Nonetheless, Congress likes to spend money, particularly in election years and the program was shrewdly divided so that every State and section could be sure of a fat share. In the last depression Congress habitually gave the President lump sums to spend as he wished. Best guess last week was that Congress would indeed give the President what he wanted but this time with more specific instructions as to precisely where...
...keeping his feet on the ground," Alfred Mossman Landon, Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 Presidential opponent, received Judge Magazine's "High Hat" award. Cracked he: "I am not as famous as a humorist as some others who have received this award*-particularly the author of that well-known gag, 'We are on our way back because we planned it that way.' " Few days later, when Citizen Landon was asked what he thought of Author...
Sporting a new hat (see cut), Cinemactress Mae West arrived in Manhattan for a series of personal appearances in the East. Said she: "Don't let this halo hat deceive you, boys. I just wear it crossing State lines...