Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blocks of houses they sped amid shouts of "Hurrah" and "Come on, Alf!" (A few indelicate Democrats yipped, "Hurrah for Roosevelt.") Beyond the town the road was lined with more cheering people. Alf Landon wriggled up to perch on the back of the tonneau, wave his straw hat and shout back while Mrs. Scranton clutched his coattails for fear that she might lose her favorite candidate overboard...
...Shanter Golf Course 75,000 Pennsylvanians and Ohioans were gathered to hear the first Landon campaign speech in the East. While Nominee Landon was shaking hands with his relatives of all degrees and kissing his 83-year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker as a man "sane, sound, sensible...
...unprecedented turnout of several hundred thousand, including many of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, each of whom has been asked to contribute $1 toward the President's reelection. The Roosevelt panama was crushed completely out of shape in an afternoon of strenuous hat-waving at enthusiastic admirers...
...Topeka excited newshawks asked Alf Landon if he would attend. "Well," said one, "the magician has pulled another white rabbit out of the hat." Governor Landon started to smile, quickly thought better of it. Said he gravely: "If there is any meeting anywhere at any time of benefit to Kansas, I will attend. . . . My work as Governor of Kansas comes ahead of anything else I am doing...
...bubbles in his R-less, drawing-room voice, he might be mistaken for a member of Harvard's famed Porcellian Club. He is "Dos" to a wide acquaintance, but he has few intimate friends. At parties he is famed for his polite but sudden departures, for leaving his hat in a special place by itself, so that he will not have to rummage for it when he makes his getaway. Sensitive of other people's feelings to the point of anguish, he will sometimes blurt out what he fears is an unpalatable truth, then hastily cover...