Word: long
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this experience resulted in felt hats rather than in felt shoes, legend does not relate, but it is undeniably true that the raw material for felt hats is the little animal with the long ears and the reputation for timidity and fertility. The straw hat lacks a romantic legendary origin, but includes in its ranks probably the world's most expensive hat-the Panama-handwoven from fibres of palm leaves in Ecuador and priced up to $500. Knox sells about a half dozen a year of the $500 variety...
...with Knox hats. The hatter, of course, takes a bird's-eye view of heads and in the Knox files are thousands of outlines (technically known as "conforms") of heads as they appear when looked straight down at. Generally speaking, there are two main types of outline-a long, narrow ellipse hardly wider at the centre than at the ends, and a short, pear-shaped figure with the wide part at the back. Long and narrow were the heads of Theodore Roosevelt, Robert G. Ingersoll, Victor Herbert. Short and pear-shaped were the heads of Ulysses S. Grant, Charles...
...ship's cabin boy. At odd times he was merchant, mariner, banker. When he died he was considered one of the richest men in the U. S. Blind in his right eye from an early accident, he used, in the 1820's, to wear his hair long, and tied into a short pigtail. Always he wore a white neckcloth and a Revolution-style coat. He left his fortune to charity and to his college. His beautiful insane wife died before...
...Smith was inside, sitting on the right of Professor Felix Frankfurter, famed Harvard Law School liberal and Sacco-Vanzetti defender. Close by sat Professor Francis B. Sayre, Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law. Mr. Smith talked for two hours on Water Power, municipal v. private operation, from his long experience of it in New York. Utmost secrecy attended the dinner. Newsgatherers, as such, are never allowed in the Union Club. Nevertheless, when Mr. Smith found the Press was present, he said: "You've got to give the boys the news...
Carnegie Cup. Gleefully tugging against the elastic water of Lake Cayuga last week, Yale's crew beat Cornell in the Carnegie Cup race-the first Cornell defeat of the season. Throughout the race it rained. Princeton, also competing, finished last. Where other crews use a long stroke, Princeton crews use a short, choppy stroke which Coach Chuck Logg learned at the University of Washington. Last week, Coach Chuck said he would not yet chuck his system...