Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Change of Hat. Serials now cost so much to make (four times as much as they used to) that the whole trick is speed and economy. Stock shots of escapes and chases are lifted from old films. All horses except the hero's and the villain's are picked for their nondescriptness; wheeled back & forth in front of the camera, five of them do the work of 50. In the same way, extras are multiplied by frequent changes of hat. Serial units frequently shoot 125 scenes, up to 18 minutes of finished film, in one day. Average...
...this week's election neared, the candidates crisscrossed the state, shaking hands, endorsing reclamation and irrigation, belaboring each other over the Communist issue, posing for pictures without number. They agreed to a full-dress debate this week. In Pendleton, Dewey got a ten-gallon hat and talked to Chief Sunset on the Mountain. In The Dalles, Dewey posed in a regulation feather headdress, last worn by Rumania's Queen Marie on a visit in the '20s. At the same town the next day, Stassen shook hands with Chief Tommy Thompson, but balked at donning his war bonnet...
...hours the world lived in strange, unreal excitement, spoke in lavender & top-hat terms of "démarches" and "settlements." It even seemed as though Moscow had toned down its radio attacks on the U.S. "They"-the dread pair of antagonists-were going to get together to talk out their differences, as if only the wrinkle in Molotov's forehead and the puff of George Marshall's lips had prevented complete agreement between the U.S. and Russia all these months. An anonymous Nanking man-in-the-street was more realistic: "Heng hao" (very good), said he. "Now will...
...said he was going home. The Kremlin had something else for him to do (if he knew, Gromyko didn't say what), and his place as chief Soviet delegate at U.N. would go to a new man. Grinned New York's Daily News: "Here's your hat, Gromy . . . We'll try to bear...
Fetch Me My Handmaiden. Far from being proud of his business connections, said Veblen, the tycoon does his best to convince people that he has never handled a deal in his life. He buys an impractical top hat, to symbolize his state of "conspicuous leisure." He goes off on a jag of "conspicuous consumption"-i.e., he pours his machine-made money into old china and silverware whose chief virtue is that they are handmade and therefore obviously very expensive. To show that he can afford to be "conspicuously wasteful," he turns a stretch of productive pasture into a non-productive...