Word: homburged
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...hours last week Britain's mammoth liner Queen Mary lay at a Southampton wharf as helpless as a beached whale. Her promenade decks and immense saloons crawled with distinguished passengers in mink wraps and Homburg hats...
...Moscow, though the sun was out when Marshall's plane landed, things looked scarcely brighter. Andrei Vishinsky appeared, wear ing the steel grey Soviet diplomatic uniform with its star like a marshal's. The U.S. Secretary of State wore a plain overcoat and a neat grey Homburg. Reported one U.S. correspondent: "So in these strange times, a civilian dressed up like a general met a general dressed like a civilian...
...member to be "sitting and covered" when raising a point of order during a voting period. Sir Gifford desperately tried to balance a paper on his head. The Speaker would have none of such hat tricks, ruled him out of order. Someone passed Sir Gifford a black Homburg, but in vain. Down went his objection. The guillotine motion was passed by a 289-to-150 margin...
Fiorello LaGuardia and his clothes stood out in Paris: at a full-blown gala at the Opera he was the only man wearing a business suit. In Geneva, begloved and Homburg-hatted city fathers who greeted him at the airport found him in the shade of a cowboy hat. But playing chess with Tito in Yugoslavia he was the picture of conservative correctness-though, sitting there in long, profound silence, he was not the picture of LaGuardia...
...Maitre Lop, serious and simple in his white celluloid collar, black shoestring tie and tortoise-shell glasses, greeted them from the stage. He wore his usual huge black Homburg on the head his followers say is shaped "like a flatiron upside down, recalling the glory of the Victory of Samothrace." Beside him were his ministers: one in charge of Folklore and Sex, another with the portfolio of Justice, Sports and Leisure, another of Tobacco and Health. The two most important were the Minister of the Fight Against the Opposition, and the Minister of the General Situation. They were "Lopologists...