Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look at me and smile, making me feel much uneasy. Whereupon, at length, the bootblack turning to his wife spoke in Greek something like the following: "My woman, why are you acting so?" Whereupon, and now laughing all the more (but pretending to be concerned only with the hat she was cleaning) she did answer in Greek: "Heavens, George, look what big feet he has!" And much at this I did smile but did not let on I understood until I was about to leave when in my laboured Greek I remembered and spoke the line: "Why not look even...
Last week Chairman Pat Harrison and his friends on the Senate Finance Committee put a white handkerchief into a hat and pulled out the same handkerchief with a rabbit painted on it. In short, they took the Bonus Bill passed by the House (TIME, Jan. 20) and wrote an entirely new bill, almost identical in effect. That was magic for it removed the political curse of the House bill, which had been frankly dictated by the three powerful veterans' lobbies, and substituted a bill that the veterans had not dictated but which satisfied them just as well...
...effectively broken up Leon's prospective marriage by writing an anonymous letter falsely accusing Leon of being the father of several illegitimate children. When he went to see the family lawyer- both he and Leon lived on their dwindling capital-he always kept his hat on in the waiting room, even when it was uncomfortably hot, "for fear that if he removed it, the gesture might be mistaken for politeness." He could never be trusted to post a letter because he would remove the stamp. He raided the pantry in the middle of the night and turned on more...
...Miser able s Ruggles of Red Gap Top Hat...
Dressed on this occasion in his newest grey clock, hat to match, a sparkling Christmas the, and a mischievous twinkle in his eye, the Vagabond will descend from his Tower this evening--where he has been all too much of late--and sup quite royally on Puree Mongol, honey, skin to the best from the Isles of Greece, Chicken, conceived in the Brook side manner, Peas, from the Birds Eye Foundation and invalidated triple A potatoes. And all prepared in the excellent cuisine of Dunster tradition...