Word: headgears
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...quarter-century ago, ladies developed an enthusiasm for huge, beplumed headgear called "Merry Widow" hats. Their daughters now go in for cranial fillips known as Empress Eugenie hats, but The-Merry Widow, whence came their moth- ers' mode, is still tuneful and gay. Perhaps it is even more tuneful now, for a haunting nostalgia has crept into the lovely melodies of Franz Lehar...
...dance at Hurlingham, and Monday send the "nipper" back to school, along with the other small Etonians (under 5 ft. 4 in.) in toppers and truncated jacket, large Etonians in toppers and morning coats; small Harrovians in jackets and straw "boaters," large Harrovians in tails and that same straw headgear which the school wears in all seasons. For the rest of the term-until the last of July-British public school boys have no such pother of examinations and commencements as occupy the attention of U. S. students. They study, perhaps with less application than during winter months. Most...
...evening last week an elderly, scholarly gentleman at the railroad station in New Haven. Conn, was extricating himself as goodnaturedly as he could from beneath a commodious piece of brown headgear which had been shoved down over his ears, not by a Hallowe'ening undergraduate but by a hearty, rough-voiced, middle-aged man whom he did not know very well except that the name was Alfred Emanuel ("Al") Smith. After Mr. Smith of New York left town, Dr. Wilbur Lucius Cross reflected that his political baptism in the name of the Brown Derby was by far the most exciting...
Togged out in varicolored uniforms (gold, scarlet, yellow, blue, green), in vari-shaped headgear (silvered helmets, bear-skins, overseas caps, berets, "ten-gallon" sombreros), 70,000 members of the American Legion last week went to Boston for their annual convention. There they paraded, many with their wives, over a 10-mi. course. From end to end the town blared with martial music, fluttered with flags. Down Tremont Street where in a reviewing stand stood the Secretaries of War and Navy, General John Joseph Pershing, General Henri Joseph Étienne Gouraud (governor of Paris), National Commander O. Lee Bodenhamer...
...Fort Bragg, N. C., Army horses paraded last week wearing monsterlike headgear. To protect animals that draw field artillery guns and caissons, the Chemical Warfare Service was trying out a new type of equine gas mask. Considering adoption of the masks as regular equipment, the War Department announced that the horses tested had been satisfactorily protected from gas. But with this equipment, there will be no more thunderous galloping into battle, for horses can breathe in the masks, only when moving at a walk...