Word: hat
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...dramatic efforts. The scenes that follow offer the amateur composers an opportunity to enact their creations, and thus we have six miniature playlets within the play, interspersed at varying intervals with the inevitable dance and song divertissements which are essential to all true musical reviews. The first incident,--"The Hat Bazaar,"--immediately puts the spectators in good humor, a humor which is constantly enhanced as the show progresses. "The Eternal Triangle,--From Two Angles," gives us an uproariously funny picture of "How the American Imagines it Happens in England," and "How the Englishman Imagines it Happens in America"; John Hastings...
Some students happened to walk down the aisle with their coats on. This obviously is a breach of etiquette! Wearing a hat or coat in the dining room IS wrong. But to an equal degree, if not, more is the terrific screaming, yelling and the raising of a general St. Vitus turmoil which was indulged in by most of the diners--ostensibly to show disapproval of "wrong etiquette" but methinks an opportunity inadvertently seized by sub-conscious entities to show the genuine essence within; men cursed with a woeful lack of self-restraint...
...secretary of the Central Federated Union, sees in the widespread unemployment the direct result of a conspiracy to force labor to take what work and wages it can get. "I am not a prophet," he says, "so I cannot say what the end will be. . . Take the cloth and hat and cap makers, for instance. This is usually the busiest time of the year for them, but three-quarters of them are out of work. . . . What does this mean? To me it seems to be but the beginning...
Perhaps the most surprising feature of this final poll is the low rating of Attorney-General Palmer. Mr. Palmer threw his hat in the ring in early March, and he has not been wanting since then in activities tending to advance his aspirations. But the Digest's poll records only 19,003 first choice and 30,532 second choice for him; and the Digest, in its summary, says: "Attorney-General Palmer has throughout run a close race with Debs, the Socialist candidate, for whose incarceration in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary Mr. Palmer's Department of Justice is responsible. Mr. Palmer...
Either something has happened lately to humor or something has happened to the Lampoon's alumni. The Graduates' Number, just off the presses today, surely is no feather in the old-timer's straw hat this spring...