Word: tricornered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small gilt chair in a five-foot sawdust ring, set Mayor LaGuardia on the chair. Cried Ringmaster Sarg: "Do you think he has enough hair to be Mayor?" Chorused the Saints & Sinners: "No." Ringmaster Sarg clapped a grey wig on the Mayor, added the fur trimmed cloak, tricorn hat and heavy chain of a British Lord Mayor. Then he pronounced him a Saint and a Sinner, summoned cameramen. Sinner LaGuardia, itchy under the wig, smiled feebly. Down upon his head fell a shower of popcorn...
...Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...
...Person-Of-The-King majestically stalked out and the Legislature, as prearranged, chose South Waterloo's affable Norman O. Hipel to be "Mr. Speaker." Conducted to the steps of the Throne, Mr. Hipel gave thanks, then stepped out to don the Speaker's black robe and tricorn hat, after which he returned to stand at one side of the Throne. With everyone at attention, back came the Person-Of-The-King, in gold-laced jacket and with jeweled sword, to read the Speech from the Throne-written of course by "Mitch" & Cabinet...
...Majesty, Mary the Good of England, has many queenly prerogatives, one of which is to wear hats of a famed pattern. Secretary Frances Perkins of the Department of Labor, nicknamed in Washington "Madam Queen," also has many prerogatives. One of them, to wear tricorn hats, she has exercised for many a year. Another, to conciliate labor disputes, she has had since taking office but has not notably exercised. In the crowd of angry disputants in the automobile labor trouble, the Weirton Steel case, the Budd body strike, the Alabama miners' walkout, the Manhattan taxicab strike and many another...
...President William Green as ''innocuous quietude." Since then, U. S. Labor had suddenly found itself a partner, somewhat dazzled but quick to take advantage of its new position, with Capital and Government in the New Deal. In Washington. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, in her cocky tricorn hat, rose to tell the A. F. of L. that "thanks to the vision and courage of President Roosevelt in making possible the National Recovery Act. the present convention sees...