Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge, in spite of the advanced state of the calendar, went walking on a hot day in his straw hat. Said he: "I have resurrected my straw hat; summer isn't over...
...Secretary of Labor, the firm-set Postmaster General, the rather unwieldy Secretary of the Navy, the youthful Acting Secretary of War and the three who had welcomed the. incoming train, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Jardine and Mr. Kellogg (clad, this time, in a white palm beach suit and carrying a straw...
...weather was inclement and disagreeable. But late in the afternoon the President and Colonel Harvey went for a walk. They were caught in a sudden drenching shower, and the summer season ended suddenly and effectually for Mr. Coolidge's straw hat. Sodden and wilted it drooped disconsolately on the way home...
...stormy morning the Shenandoah cruising across southern Ohio was suddenly seized by contending winds, and snapped in two like a straw between their fingers. By noon of that day airplanes carrying reporters and cameramen were speeding towards the scene of the wreck from points hundreds of miles away. There are no records of fatalities in those flights for news, but the hardships and difficulties to be overcome were great. The storm had not completely abated and the planes coming from the East had to cross the Alleghanies against the storm...
...straw-hat case recently investigated by the Commission, the interest of the consumer in getting a lower tariff on hats is limited to the problematic saving of, say, 50? per year, whereas the Baltimore manufacturer with an output of, say, 100,000 straw hats annually is acutely interested in that most vital of human problems-the problem of making a living...