Word: homburger
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...evening of July 27, 1941, a skinny, sickly civilian clambered aboard a PBY Catalina at Invergordon, Scotland. His correct, grey Homburg hat bore the initials of Britain's wartime Prime Minister. The pasty-faced passenger had no official title: he was going to Moscow to see Marshal Joseph Stalin as the personal emissary of the President of the U.S. In fact, the trip was the thin man's own idea. But President Roosevelt had given Harry Hopkins his blessing, and Winston Churchill had given him his hat, when Hopkins lost...
...Lotsa Luck." On the way back to the Hotel Roosevelt, Dewey's car suddenly stopped, and he stepped out with Mrs. Dewey. They strolled through the sidewalk crowds, Dewey politely doffing his Homburg to amazed passersby, bidding them a gracious good morning. "Lotsa luck, Dewey," yelled a cab driver...
...spent 14 years of his life in British jails; for this he held no grudge against Britain, but for his lifelong struggle he certainly had no repentance. Nehru, on arriving in London, changed his long black sherwani for a Savile Row suit. He looked well in a Homburg...
...plump gentleman in a black Homburg strode through the afternoon idlers in St. James's Park to the lake. Two wires were taped inconspicuously to the package in his arms; it had a harsh, germicidal smell...
...parting his russet hair in the middle and wearing golden earrings. "In spite of a superficial appearance of negligence," he later explained, "my mode of dress was not unstudied and had a style of its own." He has since discarded the earrings, but he wears even his black Homburg with a rakish...