Word: pith
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...standing in a clump of banyan trees and I didn't recognize him at first. He was wearing a big pith helmet and I hadn't calculated on his having a red beard. He stepped out on the road and said, 'Hi, John,' and I said, 'What say, Al,'-a little more excitedly than we would when we met in the corridors of the TIME & LIFE Building in New York...
Quetzalcoatl Vindicated. The finding of ancient Tula is a feather in the pith helmets of two Mexican archeologists who followed their hunch it was there in the face of learned opposition. Alfonso Caso, head of Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History, rejected the theory that the ancient Toltec capital had already been rediscovered in the famed ruins (also of Toltec workmanship) at Teotihuacan. So did a young, Cambridge-educated archeologist named Jorge Acosta, who had taken up digging after touring Europe as a champion tennis player. The Cardenas government chipped in 3,000 pesos...
Millions of Britons last week might have been inclined to feel that there was some pith in Commander Bower's remarks on Winston Churchill's war effort. But, considering his past references to Emanuel Shinwell's Polish ancestry, his bracketing of the First Lord, however fantastically, with Britain's worst enemy. Commander Bower seemed loose-tongued and his motives dubious. His speech only pointed up the fact that, although much of the criticism of Winston Churchill has come from the extreme left, he has been catching it just as hard from the far right...
...troops landed at Bandar Shahpur and, after a brief brush, made sure of the world's largest oil-cracking plant, at Abadan. Not needed were more Indian troops poised on the border of Baluchistan, where shaving the head and varnishing the skull is the poor man's pith helmet...
...smiling, and inscrutable save for the knowledge that she insists on being paid every night in fresh $100 bills." His high irony made his pages sound flippant to the stuffy, but to all others his fastidious values were plain enough. Many actors hated Percy Hammond, many others recognized his pith. When the Chicago Tribune announced that he was being sent abroad to cover World War I, a Chicago actor remarked: "Heavens! What if he doesn't like it?" Sample Hammondisms...