Word: pith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safety precaution to moviegoers, the Brattle Theatre is distributing pith helmets at the door...
Paul A. Freund, Fairchild Professor of Law said that "Hand is a master of law in all its phases. His quality of expression, his literary style, reflected his quality of mind. He preached the pith of the case by the shortest possible route. Everything Hand touched, from civil rights to patent cases, was given a dignity and an elevation of spirit...
Depreciation of the Pith Helmet. The rubber boom and less spectacular booms in tin and pepper have bounced salaries and wages all along the line. The rich are spending their money on bigger and flashier cars (a Rolls-Royce is no rarity...
Chinese amahs who never before had permanents have them now. Pedicab drivers who used to be barefoot are sporting new, all-leather sandals. The pith helmet is no longer the hallmark of the pukka imperialist; the helmets, many of them carefully coated with aluminum, gilt or yellow paint, sit grandly atop the heads of coolies. These days an Englishman would rather walk into the lobby of the Raffles Hotel without trousers than be caught wearing a pith helmet...
...hear the wife of the U.S. Ambassador say publicly what many Filipinos were thinking about the critical condition of their country. Lamented the pro-government Philippines Herald: "It should rather be a Filipino leader of discernment and high statesmanship who should be talking to his people with the same pith and accent." Snapped the Manila Chronicle: "Without mincing any words, she told her listeners . . . what was wrong with them...