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...British army circles the fur headgear worn by Edward of Wales as Colonel of the Welsh Guards is known as a busby. Bearskin is a permissible but not popular term for the same article. Other regiments that sport a busby (or bearskin) are those of all the Footguards, Fusiliers, Hussars and Royal Horse Artillery. As the Prince of Wales is also Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Fusiliers he is entitled to two busbies, each with different insignia...
Another, earlier touch of levity was the insistence by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that the U. S. delegation should land from their steamer in top hats, though two of them had started down the gangplank in soft headgear. "I feel rather like a Pilgrim father coming back to England," said Statesman Stimson, adding when correspondents did not seem to get his point, "My wife had two ancestors on the Mayflower." Another Stimson mot: "I have brought along my golf clubs, but I am no Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that...
...committed himself, Messrs. Wylie and Bowlby returned to the White House next day, sought an expression of opinion from him. President Hoover was "too busy" to see them. Secretary Akerson told them the President had no statement to make, thanked them again for calling.* ¶ The Hoover headgear has been put under comparative study. Results: The 31st President wears a 7¼hat, ⅛ larger than Lincoln's, ⅛ smaller than Grant's. President Hayes had the smallest head (7 1/16), President Garfield the largest (74). The Hoover head, unlike Chief Justice Taft's and Alfred Emanuel...
...leather fire hats were stolen from the ladder wagon while it was stopped in front of the Georgian. The firemen, who fought the blaze above the coffee urns with heads uncovered, came out to find their leather headgear gone. The trail led plausibly enough one block over to the Pudding Clubhouse on Holyoke street. No fire hats could be found there at a late hour last night. The fireman was told that the period of the play was 1850. He went away from there...
Indeed, Bryn Mawr femininity just loves to see its fortunate choices for the royal headgear promenade. Queenly "walkings" are all the vogue after the horrible strife of a great deal of competition is over, after the heckling over in-numerable processes of elimination dies down, and even after the acceptance of a position which would have delayed things a little longer and added to the excitment had been nullified. This is just an initiation, it seems, into the usual proceedings which the election entails and which The College News condescends to elucidate for "poor muddled heads." It merely reduces...