Word: headgear
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Among the red tarbooshes in Cairo's Shepheard's Hotel last week bobbed many other varieties of Arab headgear-flowing khafiya of desert men from Saudi Arabia and Yemen, top-heavy sedarah from Iraq, the occasional spiked helmet of a Trans-Jordan Arab Legionnaire. The delegates of the seven Arab League states were getting their heads together to discuss tactics of the Arab fight against Zionism...
...centuries, France's spinsters (technically all unmarried women over 25) have cut loose once a year on the day of their saint (who was a spinster herself). Last week, according to custom, the procession of "Catherinettes" (composed largely of midinettes in crazy headgear) stampeded to the saint's statue on the garish Boulevard St.-Denis. An old tradition permitted all men to kiss any spinster they encountered on St. Catherine's Day, but this was outlawed by some busybody reformers in 1933; last week, as usual, the 1933 prohibition was roundly ignored...
...beak an inch from a purple cherry. . . ." For if Edna was odd, her hat was odder: the "goodness going up through her hair" had turned the trimmings to real flowers and fruit. The rest of the story reports how Edna earned her ?5 a week by exhibiting her unusual headgear in a publicity splurge that would have made Mother turn over in her grave. By the time she had been eclipsed by a woman who had flown upside down to America, Edna had broadcast on the In Town Tonight program, become vice president of a Wild Life Society, opened...
Your story on Hedda Hopper (TIME, July 28) was a titillating yarn, but what stopped me in my tracks was the cover portrait of Hedda, complete with headgear composed of the implements of her trade...
...Unsightly Iraqi national headdress, resembling oversized U.S. Army fore-&-aft caps, known to Westerners as the only headgear a man can) leave on a Middl'e East hatrack without fear of theft...