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...were priceless assets to Joseph Chamberlain. Everyone thought of Gladstone in terms of collars. . . . Anthony Eden's adoption of the Foreign Office hat secured him. . . . But Churchill! What protean changes his hats represent, embracing official and naval cocked hats, army pillbox, hussars' busby, service cap, steel helmet, sombrero, Oxford degree hat, artists' berets and paper party hats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Onto the stage of Chicago's Medinah Temple, bag-jowled, loud-mouthed William Hale Thompson, thrice Mayor of Chicago and ready to try once more at 69, last week threw his ten-gallon campaign sombrero while friends yowled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Winnetka's Ickes | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Blue-eyed, ruddy and broad of gait, Publisher Lane likes to loll around his new ranch (Quail Hollow) near Santa Cruz in a silk shirt and sombrero. His wife is president of the Palo Alto Garden Club. He has one rule for successful publishing: "Never miss an issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sunset Gold | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Fort Worth, Tex., he accepted a sombrero and said: "This is the nearest thing to Jimmy Walker [his playboy predecessor] that I've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Little Flower on Exhibit | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Virgilino turned outlaw. He wore a bright red sombrero, glittering hornrimmed spectacles, and a gold-&-silver-studded cartridge belt that held four rows of shells, and was so broad that he could not bend at the waist. He killed so many men and stuck their decapitated heads on sharpened stakes that he was nicknamed Lampeao, "the Lamp Post." Hair by hair he pulled out sheriffs' beards. Dusky Brazilian virgins blanched at his reputation for rape. He would cut out the tongue of a woman who told him a lie. But whenever he raided a village he distributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Continued Story | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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