Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolles instituted a new custom in fall rowing after practice Thursday afternoon. The six Varsity strokes who have been rowing this fall drew numbers from a hat and then chose up crews in the order of their draws. These six crews will practice together until Tuesday, November 9, when they will have a mile race in the basin...
House waitresses will no longer wear their familiar hat band headgear but will substitute hairnets, according to an order, which took effect last night, coming from the office of Roy L. Westcott, Manager of the University Dining Halls...
...learned at the same time that he was the second thief to be arrested for pocket picking during the goal post crushes. Earlier in the year a bunglar at the trade missed his grasp for a lady's purse and found himself challenging here for her hat which she was carying in her hand at the time. The police took this offender...
Before a big bonfire on Duquesne University's campus ("the Bluff") in Pittsburgh fortnight ago, stocky, fortyish Rev. Thomas R. Jones danced in Roman collar and black hat. To 2.000 Duquesne students gathered to warm up for next day's football game with arch-rival University of Pittsburgh, Philosophy Professor Jones roared: "Duquesne's football players will be out there fighting because they love their school. The Pitt team will be out there fighting, too, but only for their weekly pay checks...
Shortly after noon, venerable Auctioneer Nathaniel Bacon Kinsey, clad in frock coat and beaver hat, climbed a platform, whanged a bell, started knocking down dogs. A farmer wanted $50 for his wire-haired "or keep your mouth shut." Another owner demanded "$100 or nothing" for a bird dog. Neither got it. "I am damned tired of these high-valued dogs," hollered Auctioneer Kinsey. "Get me some dogs I can sell for fifty cents. Bring them up here." Setters went for two or three dollars each. Ragged farmers who needed the money tearfully parted with prized hounds (see cut). Children...