Word: headgear
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...former jobs and dismissed me from office. As a matter of fact, it wasn't so. I would rather call it a decree of fate. Chiang Ch'ing used to laugh at me, saying that my head was bullet-shaped and couldn't wear official headgear securely ... As long as class struggle exists, there will be persons like the Gang of Four. Otherwise, there would be no class struggle...
...drinkers and dancers home in on Bogart's discothèque, set amid glittering car dealerships, fast-food joints and furniture shops full of Oriental rugs and Naugahyde "suites" on Tucson's East Speedway Boulevard. Inside, a hand-printed sign exhorts visitors: PLEASE, PLEASE. NO HATS OR HEADGEAR. NO MOTORCYCLE JACKETS, NO T SHIRTS, NO BARE FEET...
Even as a schoolboy, Charles had a penchant for mischief. He once sent classmates at Cheam into a frantic search for the right-sized headgear when he switched their unmarked school caps around on a wall of name-plated pegs. His sense of the zany owes much to a long devotion to the Goon Show, an innovative British radio comedy program of the 1950s whose routines he has memorized. He often emulates the show's outrageous punning style. (Sample royal groaner, after a dogsled ride in Canada: "That just sleighed me.") He loves to deflate Establishment airs, and once showed...
...zero then flips a pretzle hold on you and you're pinned before you can snap the buckle on your headgear...
Strangely, the head, the supposed repository of wisdom and common sense, is the most prodigal of all heat leakers. It can lose 50% of all body warmth. The head has to be hatted. Headgear ranges generally in inverse proportion from price to utility, from the $1,000 silk-lined sable topknot to the $3.95 classic old salt's woolen watch cap, which pulls down over the brow and ears. The Balaclava helmet, invented during the Crimean War and knitted by millions of home-front wives in World War II, is possibly the best solution for unselfconscious urbanites: it costs...