Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Straw Hat...
...founders of little Mars Hill were in trouble as soon as they laid the last handmade brick on the first building in 1856. They owed the contractors $1,100; the treasury was empty. While they frantically passed the hat, the builders slapped a judgment on the Rev. J. W. Anderson, future secretary of the college. The Rev. Mr. Anderson owned a Negro named Joe -a strapping young man easily worth $1,100 on the slave market in nearby Asheville. Some say that Joe himself volunteered to be a human surety. The builders took him to jail for safekeeping. Four days...
Working crudely, the burglars gave Matisse's Woman at the Fountain a hole in the head, tore a new twist in a cubist Picasso, Lady with a Hat, made off with four-fifths of a Miro, and, in seizing Leger's Composition with Three Sisters, left behind a patch of the girls' background. Ignorantly mistaking a paper strip of a Picasso collage for the whole work of art. they tried to rip it off and ruined a work valued at more than $100,000. They got away with six Picassos, two Legers, a Miro and a Dufy...
...morning last week, a big man in a wide-brimmed Panama hat got out of a chauffeur-driven Cadillac and pushed his way through the swinging back door of the eleven-story San Francisco office building that Westerners, half in awe and half in bitterness, used to call "The Capitol of California." As usual, Donald Joseph McKay Russell, 61, president of the Southern Pacific Co.. was hustling to get to work before 8 o'clock. Explained the top man on the world's most flourishing railroad: "It's an old railroad operating man's habit...
...Straw Hat...