Word: headgears
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Clad in a wide-checked overcoat and Tyrolean headgear, the boy that made "Harlem polo" famous over the air made a big hit with the remainder of the Smoker crowd that had lingered...
Hats, which had lately been, at worst, ridiculously appealing and, at best, downright becoming, threatened to go unattractively cockeyed again-"winged hats," "haloes on a bender," "Milans with tuzzy-muzzy topknots." But men were hardened to nonsensical headgear. What really dudgeoned them was the other extreme-shoes, which had become as hideous as anything in man's long-suffering memory: solid-heel-and-soled, club-footed dumpers, reminiscent of Clementine, the miner's daughter...
...weeks after headgear is brought out as the new thing, it may be old hat. "Millinery . . . has no intrinsic value...
Last year Professor Wodzicki shipped two storks from their summer nests near Butyny, Poland, to Berlin, where they were loosed with magnets strapped to their heads. Idea was that the interference from this headgear would prevent the birds from taking their bearings by terrestrial magnetism. They got back to Butyny all right, despite the magnets. That was not deemed conclusive enough to rule out all possibility of magnetic guidance, however, so the professor sent six more Polish storks to London this spring, and they too wore magnetic hats when set free...
Marion makes Topper follow his wife to the French Riviera. There, appearing and disappearing with clocklike regularity, she plays tricks with Topper's headgear (see cut), cheats at roulette, removes a pair of bathing trunks from Mrs. Topper's gigolo, and in a climactic scene disappears from a ballroom floor, leaving Topper to dance a sudden solo...