Word: hatless
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Their first notice of trouble came when a hatless Secret Serviceman dashed down the hall past the pressroom. The newsmen chased after him down the long block...
...trigger man, reported to be dark complexioned, rough looking, and hatless, rang the Thornes' bell and shot the psychiatrist in the chest twice when he answered the ring. Then he pumped five bullets into Mrs. Thorne when she came to investigate the source of the noise. Thorne died instantly. His wife was found unconscious, bleeding from chest and head wounds...
...Hatless Corpse. That evening, sharp as ever in a dark suit, pearl-grey fedora and canary-yellow gloves, Drury drove his new black Cadillac home. At 6:45 he backed into the garage. Two men stepped out of the darkness and faced the car. With a shotgun and a .45, they punched four holes in the windshield. The first slugs knocked Drury's hat to the seat; the rest plowed into his head and body. An hour later Bill Drury was dead-without a hat on. Upstairs on his desk was a telephone message: the Kefauver committee had called...
...beginning of the Spanish revolution in 1936, according to British Author John Langdon-Davies, the proletariat of Barcelona took to promenading hatless and tieless along the fashionable Rambla. In a ringing editorial, the syndicalist paper, Worker Solidarity, hailed this gesture of defiance of bourgeois convention. Then Worker Solidarity was faced with a storm of protest from the hat and necktie workers' unions. The paper abruptly reversed itself, came out for hats and ties on the Rambla...
...Williamsburg, Va. he strolled the streets hatless, admiring the colonial architecture while other tourists and townspeople admired him. In New Orleans he asked his chauffeur to stop the car so he could hear the jazz throbbing out of the bistros. In Austin, Tex. even his musicians got a surprise. Their usually dapper maestro, for the first time within memory, rehearsed them in shirtsleeves...