Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received an angry letter from my aunt, la Comtesse de Gabriac, saying that the Paris Herald had also reported me to be a jailbird. Simultaneously came various letters from California kidding me unmercifully about the same story carried by papers out there. The clipping from TIME was the fatal straw, and realizing that TIME will reach as nation-wide a public as all these other papers combined, I rely upon your courtesy to correct this mistake, and relieve Boston from calumny...
Halterophora Capitata, informally known as the Mediterranean fruit fly, arrived in Florida mysteriously, probably late last year. Some say it may have traveled in the straw around the liquor-bottles on a rumboat. It is a fly which settles in any kind of fruit except watermelons and pineapples, or in vegetables if fruit is not handy. One fruit fly will lay 800 eggs. An orange, lemon or grapefruit in which 800 little fruit flies are hatching soon becomes a horrible, maggoty thing. Since last May, when a U. S. Department of Agriculture representative bit into a flyblown orange and gave...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft, cheery, straw-hatted, but looking thin, was pushed through Washington's Union Station last week in a wheelchair, on his way to his summer home in Murray Bay, Canada. Mrs. Taft kept him company in another wheelchair. Exhausted by a trip to Cincinnati and back, fearing recurrence of an old bladder ailment, Mr. Chief Justice had been hospitalized for five days, examined, rested, reported sound. Starting north, however, he avoided exertion...
Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou was dinner guest in Manhattan last week of the Men's Hat Trade and Allied Industries. The 600 celebrants were bidden to wear dinner coats. On the invitations appeared the warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them...
...Calvin Coolidge and Al Jolson. John D. Rockefeller Sr. wears a 7½ John D. Rockefeller Jr. a 7⅜. The largest hat ever made was a special order from a Ringling Brothers Giant, who weighed 480 pounds and took an 8⅞. There is not much variation in straw hat styles, straws of the present (delayed) season tending toward a narrowed brim and a slightly bell-shaped crown...