Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loire which sent him in 1932 to the Chamber of Deputies. It was not his constituents but the Chamber which deprived Philibert of his seat last March, after he had infringed French law in various eccentric ways, always escaping from the police to Belgium in a bright blue straw hat. Last week Incredible Philibert, the Zioncheck of France, was arrested after another fantastic chase and this time the vexed French gendarmes succeeded in having him placed under observation. They charged him with purloining commercial papers, demanded that he tell what he had done with them. "Gladly!" cried Philibert. "They...
...came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being put upon lecture platforms especially to pummel each other "like two knockabout comedians." Their social relations were less permanent. When Maurice Baring gave a great birthday party (at which eggs were boiled in Sir Herbert Tree's silk hat and Chesterton fenced with real swords with a gentleman "fortunately" more intoxicated than himself), Shaw left the drunken company "like a 17th Century Puritan leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic Henley...
...Where's your high hat, Alf?" cried...
...beginning there were no Sachs in Goldman Sachs. Today there are no Goldmans. The business dates back to 1869 when the late Marcus Goldman started to buy from Manhattan tobacco and diamond dealers the promissory notes given them by their customers. Clapping the notes in his high black hat, Founder Goldman would then make the rounds of the banks, selling the notes as short-term investments at a slight profit...
...Sing, Baby, Sing" endeavors to show what happens when a night-club singer is not a gold-digger. Alice Faye is that phenomenon, and her conduct is so amazing that even a movie news-reporter (Michael Whalen) is induced to take off his hat, and eventually to marry her. She really should have married Adolphe. Menjou, but then he was always drinking and reciting Shakespeare. Miss Faye is meant to be a personality girl in this picture, but she impresses us as being as pudgy and insipid as ever. The asininities of Ted Healy are a definite detraction; those...