Word: homburged
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Through blackout curtains the voice of Big Ben boomed eleven, midnight, one, two as the pair talked on to an understanding. Then Eden went home, his black Homburg hat riding his grey-brown head as rakishly as ever. Correspondents who had reported his resignation on Churchill's desk reported it off again. Eden would stay as Foreign Secretary-for awhile...
...Daily Express editor, he gets to work in midmorning after having read all other London papers, works often until after midnight, with time out for large and lengthy lunches and dinners. His lone bow to sartorial propriety is a black Homburg hat, the high-toned effect of which he habitually voids by wearing with it a fuzzy, natural-color camel's hair coat...
...cameras clicked until Black Jack put his cane aside and drew himself to attention-grey Homburg untilted, old eyes straight, grey mustache clipped, chin drawn in, black suit pressed to razor edges, black shoes gleaming. Then he wheeled and marched inside to talk with the President. A newsman said softly: "Here we go again...
Lord Eyelash. There was a time when Eden was known in the chancelleries of Europe as "Lord Eyelash." Women gasped when they saw him. Others considered him merely a handsome man in a black Homburg hat who dashed around on good causes. But Eden dislikes being called the "Beau Brummel of British Politics." His is serious business...
...noticed the cars. But as the first limousine rolled down Gorki Street hill and turned west along the north wall of the Kremlin, U.S. and British correspondents recognized-in the light of a match held to a long black cigar-a cherubic face in the gap between a black Homburg and a dark business suit...