Word: homburged
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...stooped, burly figure wearing a black Homburg hat and puffing a cigar strode through the City's ruins. When he came to a puddle of water several inches deep he waded through it. "Stick to it, Winnie," shouted the people as they recognized their Prime Minister. "We won't crack up!" "No sir," he replied, "we won't crack...
...Welles back to Manhattan from his 41-day mission to Europe. Ship-news reporters found the Under Secretary of State cold, erect, impenetrable as usual, impeccable in a double-breasted blue suit with a navy-blue tie on his soft-collared white shirt, holding a blue chesterfield overcoat and Homburg...
...Attending a Birthday Horse Show at the Army's Fort Myer, Va., left his usual evening topper at home. Instead he wore a soft, black English Homburg (gift of his military aide. "Pa"'Watson, who was struck with Anthony Eden's Homburg when the Britisher visited Washington last year...
...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...more familiar to Europeans than Anthony Eden's famed black Homburg is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's black, rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...