Word: sombrero
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...Truman climbed into a limousine, drove to the White House, changed from a grey fedora to a sand-colored sombrero, got back into the limousine and was driven to National Airport, where he joined Lovett and others in the reception committee for Marshall. The Secretary's plane had been circling overhead for ten minutes, waiting word that the President had arrived. The plane set down. A tired, ashen-faced, 68-year-old George Marshall alighted, smiling wanly. A grinning Mr. Truman greeted...
...When a tall, heavily built man wearing a sombrero and packing a .45 pistol strode into the White Plains (N.Y.) County Trust Co., timid customers hastily summoned police, sheepishly apologized when he was identified as Frank M. Ward, an assistant manager of the local airport, calling for the weekly payroll. Ward is from Texas...
...good start by buying the first poppy of the Veterans of Foreign Wars' 1947 sale from six-year-old Saundra Fay Hall, gave her in return a little silver sombrero he had picked up in Mexico. Later that afternoon he drove over to the Bethesda Naval Hospital to pin a Medal of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster on ailing, aging former Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...when he was 23, Lachaise met the girl who inspired (though she did not model for) his massive idealizations of womanhood. To follow Isabel to the U.S., Lachaise gave up his sombrero, his cape, his wide trousers caught at the ankle, flowing black tie, cane, long hair, and his studies at Paris' Beaux Arts school. He carved belt buckles, buttons and saddles for Civil War monuments in Boston, later apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Manhattan Sculptor Paul Manship. After seven years' labor, Lachaise was a slick enough portraitist and decorative sculptor to live...
...pitched horseshoes to whet his appetite for a birthday luncheon party in the office of Attorney General Tom Clark. The party was gay. Even the six Supreme Court Justices present guffawed when the finically dressed President put on a roguish Texas sombrero. Carefree as a boy, Harry Truman sliced a toothsome birthday cake with three flickering candles-for the past, present and future...