Word: homburged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about you, his whole face was beaming." Now in his twilight years, Cyrus Eaton is the archetype of the fading dog-eat-dog capitalist. Tall and slim (5 ft. 11 in., 175 Ibs.) with frosty blue eyes and arctic white hair, he dresses like Daddy Warbucks (blue suits, grey Homburg) and resides in manorial splendor on huge farms (champion Shorthorn beef cattle) in Ohio and Nova Scotia. His personal wealth is estimated at something like $100 million, and his hard-knuckled grip on U.S. industry extends over a $2 billion empire of iron and steel, railroads, shipping, coal and paint...
...just cannot visualize Christ with a Homburg wearing a Brooks Brothers suit...
...simple parish priest. But he had always had a penchant for politics. Over the protests of his archbishop, he decided to run for the French National Assembly. He was forbidden by his archbishop to say Mass, though he still wears black or white cassocks, topped by a Homburg. He lost the election, but while his opponent went off to Paris, the abbé's admirers refused to believe that he had lost, and took their problems to him as if he were their actual Deputy. In 1956 Youlou was elected mayor of Brazzaville (pop. 100,000) in a landslide...
...dominate the skyline in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth. Texas has more banks than any other state: 968 with total deposits of $10.4 billion, combined resources of $11.6 billion. Texas bankers succeed by fighting for business like warring supermarket operators on a Saturday afternoon -while also wearing Homburg hats and speaking in muted tones. The man who best combines such Texas talents is taut, wiry, fiercely competitive Fred F. Florence, 67, head of Dallas' Republic National Bank, who for years has been locked in an epic duel with Dallas' First National Bank. The prize: the title...
...Colonel (Columbia) clothes Danny Kaye, hailed as "the world's greatest clown" by his pressagents and some critics not on the payroll, in a seedy business suit and black Homburg, and tints his hair middle-aged grey. Not a prat in the whole picture falls, and not one double-talked song or double-sung talk issues from the Silly Putty that is Kaye's usual movie face. The result of this hold-down of his celebrated talents is the most appealing and one of the funniest films Danny Kaye has ever made...