Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earl Baldwin, thrice Prime Minister of Britain, weighed down with a crimson robe festooned with miniver, had to go thirsty. He was standing just outside the House of Lords fidgeting with a black cocked hat. waiting to be inducted. A thin stream of dignitaries trickled towards him-Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, Garter Principal King of Arms; the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England; the Earl of Ancaster, Lord Great Chamberlain; the Earl of Derby and the Marquess of Londonderry, two senior peers. They shuffled into position, marched up the aisle towards the woolsack whereon sat Viscount Hailsham, Lord Chancellor...
...woman clutching a baby. He labeled the result "Cast up by the Sea." The piece so affected passersby on the boardwalk above that they tossed coins down to the artist, who was soon followed to the beach by other itinerant modelers. By 1910 sand sculptors, with bucket, blanket or hat to receive contributions, had become as much an Atlantic City fixture as its wheelchairs, fortune-tellers and Million-Dollar Pier...
Part of the Rose genius is that he enters wholeheartedly into the atmosphere of the place where he is working. In Texas he rode around in chaps and a ten-gallon hat, wore a gold deputy sheriff's badge, kept a two-headed snake and three live wolves in his office. When he arrived at the Cleveland fairgrounds and saw the waters of Lake Erie rippling at his feet, he decided to stage a revue in and on the water, a sort of marine circus. He immediately had a dolphin tattooed on his chest and went around saying...
Catholics last week predicted that the red hat of a cardinal awaits Archbishop Mooney if the U. S. gets its fifth Prince of the Church in time. Tall, lofty of brow, matter-of-fact, he is a shrewd master of church and business law, a rigid disciplinarian who will take no back talk from any Father Coughlin. Indeed, observers felt that, though the Church had successfully liquidated the "Coughlin affair" of last autumn (TIME, Aug. 17 .et seq.) by giving the radio priest plenty of rope, it was putting a strong man in Detroit especially to prevent any repetition...
...students were driving over the bridge when they noticed a hat and tie lying on the railing. Running back to investigate they observed White in the water below, and while Dubiel ran for the nearest police box, Giles dove into the water and swam with the unconscious victim to the shore, where he was revived by Giles and the police, who soon arrived...