Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Ethiopia's ousted Emperor had quietly entered the Assembly Hall in tropical white tunic and black cape, having checked his broad-brimmed hat outside. His Majesty, taking a seat in the fifth row, sat quietly through van Zeeland's reading of Il Duce's note. He also sat through a long speech by flowery Delegate José María Cantilo of Argentina, the country which had demanded that the Assembly meet on the Ethiopian Question. Harking back to President Hoover's meticulous
...Portsmouth Naval Base in the gorgeous uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, was mobbed by sailors' girls who broke through police lines and jumped on the running boards of his car cheering in the rain. Putting on an oilskin over his uniform and tossing the white-feathered cocked hat of the Admiral of the Fleet into a corner of the cabin in Flea Boat No. 1, His Majesty had the tiny craft's three 500 h.p. motors opened wide, disappeared toward Spithead in a choppy sea at 44 knots with cascades of spray bursting over his eager head...
...renting an office to hang up my hat in and start off for regularly every morning," said Marshall Field's John McKinlay in Chicago last week. The 61-year-old Scotsman had just placed his resignation as president in the hands of another Scotsman, Chairman James McKinsey. To President McKinlay, who rose from a cashboy, Marshall Field was an Institution. To Chairman McKinsey, who entered from the top as a professional management counsel, Marshall Field was a corporation with a problem. The two viewpoints were incompatible. As Mr. McKinlay's successor, Mr. McKinsey suggested Vice President Frederick Dexter...
...have a top hat...
...Come here, you big lunk!" shouted the head keeper few minutes later. Blood dripping from his single tusk, Wally padded over to the fence, let one hind foot be chained. But when the brave keeper attempted to chain his front feet, Wally swept the man's straw hat into his mouth, crunched, spat out the pieces. The front feet remained unchained...