Word: homburged
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...blew kisses. The President stood soldierlike through it all (he spurned the easy way, a concealed stool used by Harry Truman four years ago). He stood at solemn attention for every passing flag, and whenever a contingent of marching women came by, he gallantly doffed his celebrated Homburg...
Eisenhower ordered Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen to make a quick, fact-finding trip through Europe within ten days after the inauguration. Another decision: his inaugural outfit, announced Eisenhower, would include no top hat or tail coat. Instead, he would wear: black Homburg, striped trousers, club coat, black and grey four-in-hand tie, turned-down starched collar...
...Frenchmen began to compare him with Raymond Poincaré, who won fame in the 1920s not because he had been both President and Premier of France, but because he had saved the franc. In newsreel theaters, flashes of the dignified little man in plain double-breasted suit and the homburg provoked wild applause-"the first politician since De Gaulle who has received spontaneous applause," reported an impressed minister after an afternoon at the movies. At the autograph exchange in the gardens of the Palais Royal, the signature of Antoine Pinay went to the top of the priority list. "Even before...
First to appear was Detroit Banker Joseph Dodge, who presented himself to Budget Director Frederick Lawton and was assigned a big office in the Executive Office Building just two doors down the hall from Lawton's own quarters. There, Dodge took off his grey Homburg, grey suede gloves and dark blue overcoat and settled down behind a big desk on which he placed 1) a pile of celluloid calendars advertising his Detroit Bank, 2) a copy of the Republican platform (which calls for "reduction of expenditures by the elimination of waste and extravagance"). Then he got down to work...
...oversimplified dramatic homily on the theme of good & evil. Good is personified by a pure-in-heart Mexican field worker (Ricardo Montalban), who wears a Homburg hat and checked jacket and proudly sports his newly acquired U.S. citizenship. When he meets and proposes to embittered Shelley Winters (Evil), a California wino who has hit the bottom of the barrel, she says cynically: "You and me and America, that'd be a threesome for a honeymoon!" Before long, Montalban reforms not only Shelley, but also thieving Farmer Wendell Corey and his slatternly wife Claire Trevor...