Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warning for men to visit their barber before they buy their straw hats was issued yesterday by the National Association of Men's Straw Hat Manufacturers. "The average head of hair", it was stated, "within ten days of its shearing, increases a full quarter of an inch in circumference. These figures were compiled from figures made on thousands of heads. If due precaution is not taken, buyers will find their straw hats flopping down around their ears after their first hair...
...sayings. And Balieff takes that step half a hundred times in the course of a single evening of the Chauve-Souris' program of jumbled beauty and absurdity. That is perhaps its greatest merit. Either sublimity or absurdity by itself soon tends to become tiresome. The endless foolery of a straw-hat comedian soon grows dreary. The lengthy sublimity of a five-hour opera by Wagner is almost as boring. But in the Chauve-Souris the clowns are artists, and the artists are not obove clowning. The result is an entertainment which is exhilirating, stimulating, never wearisome...
...machine-made play, performed by actors in the best clothing dummy style. Robert Emmett Keane, the Reading man, characterized by Critic Hammond as a "straw-hat comedian," signalizes every impending wise crack with a lift of the katy...
King George II of Greece submitted to generous terms of abdication, granted him by the Republican Government of M. Papanastasion, and tendered by Royalist deputies. Last week a straw showed that the wind had set definitely against monarchy; prayers for the King were omitted in all church services throughout Greece, and the official title of Greece was changed from the "Kingdom of Greece" to the "Hellenic State...
...affair is to be a rustic barn dance. Overalls, gayly checkered shirts, and large straw hats will be the male attire of the evening. The girls will appear in gingham gowns, jumpers, sun bonnets, and shawls...