Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American Legion tied up at Buenos Aires, Messrs. Hull & Welles stood on its deck, acting once more as advance men for Franklin Roosevelt's personal appearance. On the pier a tall professorial man with a long stiff neck and high stiff collar frantically waved his hat. He was their host, Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine Foreign Minister, who 24 hours before had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1936 and who was so delighted that he could hardly wait to come aboard to receive their congratulations...
...make his round of the delegations. At the last Pan-American Conference at Montevideo three years ago Mr. Hull flabbergasted and charmed his Latin-American colleagues: instead of paying them formally arranged visits he dropped in unannounced and waited his turn to be received; instead of going in top hat and cutaway, he clapped his grey fedora on his thin white hair and simply went calling.* As a class, Latin-American diplomats have been schooled abroad, but in Europe, not the U. S. Their clothes, their luxuries, not to mention their ideas of international affairs all come from Europe...
...hat source has made all the Opera Hats and Silk Hats for every President of the United States for the past 8 Presidents-- Roosevelt Wilson Hoover Taft Coolidge Roosevelt Harding McKinley...
...opera hat this year is a new low crown that looks well on every man. Gone are the grotesque over height of the old operas...
...Knocked on the door of a couple named Newman and with hat in hand asked, "May I come...