Word: helmeted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought a variegated collection of sartorial exhibits to Key West and wore them with obvious relish; during a week of beach expeditions, he showed one white pith helmet, one cane, one light yellow sport shirt with orange-and-brown palm trees on its front, one black-and-yellow sport shirt with brown trimmings, and one bright yellow sport shirt with a brown grill design on the front. They were worn with light-colored slacks. Usually, at the beach, the 65-year-old President simply sat in the sun, watching his staff frolic with a volleyball, then changed into bathing trunks...
Blue Danube, Dark Skies. It was a light schedule, and shortly before noon he was ready to relax. He donned a white pith helmet, strolled to the beach past blossoming frangipani, hibiscus and bougainvillaea, soaked up sunshine for two hours and took a dip in the blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He went for a dip again on St. Patrick's Day-wearing green trunks. That evening he got out a big batch of phonograph records, gave his staff a canned concert of piano selections-such pieces as the Blue Danube and a Chopin Polonaise...
...boss of the American Federation of Musicians, whose union has been supplying free performers for the last four years to the VA radio show, Here's to Veterans. After considerable thought, VA officials presented Petrillo with a certificate of appreciation-and the innards of a heavy-duty battle helmet...
...been "a very nice time," as he said afterwards, but he had made it plain that he had brought his work along. He begged off meeting with old cronies, vetoed onetime Partner Eddie Jacobson's scheme to make him an honorary fire chief and give him a red helmet, and skipped a party given in his honor by Kansas City's Truman Democratic Club, thereby generating a certain atmosphere of pique-the boys weren't really angry, but they were disappointed. Most of his days were spent in his penthouse suite at the Muehlebach Hotel; his nights...