Word: homburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sugar-scoop coat or high hat clothed Lord Lothian. To the confusion of protocol, he wore a black pin-stripe business suit, a loosely knotted dark tie, black bump-toed shoes, glasses with light grey plastic rims, a grey Homburg hat. He pushed open the right-hand door to the Executive offices (the left is always locked), walked over the black-and-white checkered linoleum, around the Philippine red narra table and back to the President's office. He gave his hat to Pat McKenna, ancient doorguard, and walked...
...more familiar to Europeans than Anthony Eden's famed black Homburg is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's black, rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...
Wishing to take a vacation incognito, Britain's popular ex-Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disguised himself, passed through London's thronged Victoria Station, entrained for the Riviera (see p. 21) unrecognized. His disguise: a brown felt hat instead of curled-brim black Homburg...
...hours after handsome Anthony Eden resigned as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Glasgow haberdashers marked down the Eden-style black Homburg from ?1 to four shillings. In London's West End, however, it still held its own. "It has too much character," said one Mayfair hatter, "to be blown off by a political breeze...
...Italy! Down with Musso!" Members of the Cabinet, including Mr. Eden, came & went repeatedly without taking more than the merest notice of the crowd before the official residence of the Prime Minister. Even after Hero Eden had actually handed in his letter of resignation, he only raised his black Homburg hat once or twice, diffidently. To a few friends waiting for him on the steps of the Foreign Office, Anthony Eden said: "It's all over...