Word: homburged
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...severe has been Lord Beaverbrook's asthma since he arrived in the U.S. last month that he has not been able to apply his genius to Anglo-American production. Instead, wearing only blue shorts and a black Homburg, he has been sunning himself at Miami Beach, Fla. Said he: "It is true that I suffer from both temperament and asthma but the asthma is a damn sight worse than the temperament...
...much right to the title. As he arrived in Washington, a tall, strapping figure in a blue suit, white shirt, blue necktie and grey homburg hat, he could have passed for an exceptionally handsome and well-dressed citizen of the U.S., or any other American republic. But he is something of which the U.S. knows little: a cultured man of the world who is almost entirely of Indian blood, a man who, on the one hand, was educated at the Sorbonne; on the other, has ridden through Mexico's barren hills with Pancho Villa's guerrillas...
Donning his land-going suit of solemn black, his black bow tie, his black Homburg, Churchill was driven to Buckingham Palace to deliver President Roosevelt's letter to King George. As his car rolled past the exultant crowds, he waved the letter at them...
...goes about the city in a Bohemian costume that consists of a black Homburg hat, grey flannels, a Mackinaw and heavy brogans...
Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, lugging a 16-mm. camera, visited habitually hard-hatted Al Smith in Manhattan, photographed him in a spanking new pearl-grey Homburg...