Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cried Neville Chamberlain with unusual vehemence, "I will be prepared to eat my hat...
Into Vienna last week, three days ahead of the Feldmarschall, charged German Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Europe's most unorthodox and potent economic prestidigitator. He has kept on for so many years pulling steel and cannon out of the hat of virtually busted Germany, that what he can do with a Greater Germany, now not quite so busted by reason of the addition of Austria, simply remains to be seen. Dr. Schacht took Austria's gold last week as a matter of course and no Austrian protest was recorded...
...Battleship's owner is Marian du Pont Somerville Scott, wife of Cinemactor Randolph Scott. She landed in England in time to reach Aintree only two hours before the race. Dressed in horsy tweeds and a Robin Hood hat, Mrs. Scott was jammed in the crowd after the finish, could not lead her horse in as the winner's owner usually does. When she finally reached Battleship's stable, she patted his neck with mixed emotions. Said she: "I am glad I won the Grand National. I didn't have a bet on the race...
...repercussions of Austria's Nazification last week continued to widen through the world. Opportunistic Hollywood threw its hat into the ring as a prospective "American Salzburg." And 200 embattled citizens of arty Westport, Conn, nearly shattered the rafters of their Town Hall with furious protests against the plan to make Westport a "Salzburg on the Saugatuck" (TIME, March 28). Following the meeting, Westport's Board of Zoning Appeals refused to grant Millionaire Patrick A. Powers a permit to continue construction on his $100,000 "Dream Stadium...
...hand artist, by looking in the wrong direction, delivering little sermons about this and that, suddenly popping out with his tricks already worked. Because of this stealthy way of sneaking up on a story, his characters sometimes seem less like human beings than like rabbits pulled out of a hat, blinking uncomfortably at their sudden appearance...