Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been rotund Dr. H. H. Kung, China's Minister of Finance. Loans he got, both in Switzerland, The Netherlands and Britain but just how much no one could say. They were enough at least for him to visit Vienna where he trotted about happily in a green Tyrolean hat complete with feather, placing munitions orders. From Vienna he retired to famed Bad Nauheim to rest. But there was no rest for Japanese financiers. Last week they were desperately ordering from abroad not scrap iron but finished steel (more quickly convertible into war materials) and to pay for it they...
Manfully Zurich detectives and policemen worked to prevent Nazis or Swiss Jewbaiters from causing any incidents during the Congress, but at week's end Swiss fascists managed to knock the hat off Rabbi Wolf Gold, once of New York, now of Palestine, and to bloody the nose of a British delegate...
...Berry was editor of the Cornell Widow in the time of George Jean Nathan, then practiced law in Manhattan, returned to Ithaca to direct athletics and establish himself as a campus character, famed for his brown tweed hat with grouse feather. What little writing he did was for local, college or farm papers. The New Yorker tried him out for two weeks in May, with instant success. Sensing in his work some of the curious detachment that marked Andy White's "Notes and Comment," The New Yorker persuaded Rym Berry to leave campus & farm, to come to town...
...condition that a competent sculptor could be found to do a historically accurate job at no cost to the city. Fortunately, Pere Marquette's Franciscan habit can easily be chiseled into resemblance of a Jesuit mantle without even moving the plaque. Sculptor Eugene Romeo will reduce the Franciscan hat to a skullcap, take the fullness out of the robe, remove the monk's cowl, incise a flat cincture about the waist...
...directories, bound volumes of The Commercial & Financial Chronicle and railroad almanacs from 1862 on. The more he studied old security issues the more convinced he became that owners of many forgotten bonds held title to vast if watery wealth. And because out of Sleuth Smythe's capacious hat gratifying miracles sometimes popped, trustees and executors got in the habit of laying the contents of old tin boxes before Mr. Smythe's blazing blue eyes, red face and Edwardian whiskers. Mr. Smythe loved to talk, hated to give any information except for a fee. For the last 20 years...