Word: hats
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...interesting as a matter of passing notice, though not worth much actually, that Harvard, having joined the infantry, now wears a hat cord of blue, the color once consecrated to defeat by Mahan and Brickley and the cause of our own undoing under Black. In like manner Yale, having joined the artillery, now wears a hat cord of red, whose tone was once the battle-sign to Yale. So are the heavens altered. Berkeley held that all color is illusion. And the Army has made...
...Hat cords: (a) For tactical instructors and cadet officers--Blue cord, with gilt acorn at each end and gilt keeper; (b) For Cadets--Blue (infantry) cord. (C. U. R., No. 2, June 5, 1917.) C. CORDIER, Captain U. S. Army, Commandant. June...
...noted since forgotten time by poets with the coming of the red-breasted robin, by lovers with the coming of the bashful violet, by housewives with the coming of the iceman on the departing trail of the coal man, and by college men with the coming of the straw hat...
...Straw hats are the glorification of spring. True, Keats never sang in praise of them when he penned his imperishable odes. But that was probably because, being a poet, he was forced to content himself with a hand-me-down of a last winter's derby. Roses may wither, westerly zephyrs turn into wintry gales, blue spring days dissolve, but the straw hat, like the river and the youth of excelsiior, goes on forever...
They are the straws at which drowning men clutch in oblivion to their other and lesser possessions. They are the straws that show which way the wind blows. They are the straws which people refuse to give when in a careless mood. The straw hat is the honor of adolescence, the grace of youth, the distinction of manhood, and the folly...