Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cancan or chahut," says Curt Sachs' World History of the Dance, "is the enfant terrible of ... choral dances. Leg thrust and leap are its most characteristic features; the best dancer is the one who can knock the spectator's hat off his head with her foot...
Greta Garbo, off to Europe where she will seriously consider making her first movie in eight years (Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais), made a standard Garbo exit. Dressed in black and hidden under a large mushroom-shaped hat, she slipped aboard the Queen Elizabeth, ahead of the crowds, eluded reporters by having the stewardess tell them that Miss Garbo had not yet come aboard...
...Foreign Relations Committee, "but," said he, "the Senators have come before Perle Mesta, many & many a time, in ... great feasts of the intellect and palate . . ." Texas' bellowing Tom Connally got in some licks too. "The Senator from Missouri wants a man with striped britches and a silk hat, perhaps," shouted Connally. "Career men are all right in their places, but . . . they get into ruts . . . The career man says, 'I have to go. We have tea at 4 o'clock. I am sorry, but I must go to tea.' They nearly all wear the same kind...
Reading Histories. While this bargaining over his royal personality was going on, Leopold was catching up on some reading. One day last week, his tall blond figure clad in grey jacket, flannel trousers and narrow-brimmed green felt hat, he motored in his Bugatti sport car to a big Geneva bookstore. He came away with Nehru's Glimpses of World History, Churchill's Their Finest Hour and Laski's American Democracy...
...word for those Westerners who believed that Communist China would come hat in hand to Washington and London in search of loans; his word was "naive." He predicted that the West would try to lend his government money "because Western capitalists want to make money and bankers need interest to relieve their own crises...