He was partially uniformed in a cavalry tunic and hat.

But his only hat was something else again.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

One of the pictures was of a man with hat drawn over his face ceremoniously lighting a cigarette ; ;

His hat was gone, the tears were streaming from his eyes.

James P. Mitchell, when he was the head of the department, promised to eat his hat if unemployment didn't drop below three million a couple of years ago.

There was a man's jacket on the chair and a straw hat on the table.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

He had retained his hat and his horn, and, whatever fun might still be going, he was ready to join it.

If Felix was still wearing the hat and carrying the horn because he'd forgotten about them, he now remembered.

As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

He was disappointed to find a nervous, scrawny woman with a big hat standing at the door.

Bill's hat was deposited in the hall closet.

As the towns and cities of the Middle Ages began to grow, and the general populace was unable to read, signs that today would say cobbler, miller, tailor or blacksmith would use an image associated with their trade such as a boot, a suit, a hat, a clock, a diamond, a horse shoe, a candle or even a bag of flour.

On July 12, 1985, in conjunction with a credit card fraud investigation, the Middlesex County, NJ Sheriff's department raided and seized The Private Sector BBS, which was the official BBS for grey hat hacker quarterly 2600 Magazine at the time.

Later, when Watterson was creating names for the characters in his comic strip, he allegedly decided upon Calvin ( after the Protestant reformer John Calvin ) and Hobbes ( after the social philosopher Thomas Hobbes ) as a " tip of the hat " to the political science department at Kenyon.

In the liner notes to Buddy Holly: The Definitive Collection, Billy Altman notes that " Peggy Sue " was originally written as " Cindy Lou " ( after Holly's niece ), but Holly changed it prior to recording as a tip of the hat to Crickets drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend, Peggy Sue Gerron.

He became a renowned pirate, his cognomen derived from his thick black beard and fearsome appearance ; he was reported to have tied lit fuses under his hat to frighten his enemies.

Later, George W. Bush was symbolized by a Stetson hat atop the same invisible point, because he was Governor of Texas prior to his presidency ( Trudeau accused him of being “ all hat and no cattle ”, reiterating the characterization of Bush by columnist Molly Ivins ).

Later, President Bush ’ s hat was changed to a Roman military helmet ( again, atop an asterisk ) representing imperialism.

He was last seen in blue pants, blue Boy Scouts of America shirt, orange and blue Boy Scout hat on a light green bicycle.

" His figure was that of a robust, large-framed man, worn down by confinement and hard fare ; but he was now recovering his flesh and spirits ; and a suit of blue clothes, with a gold laced hat that had been presented to him by the gentlement of Cork, enabled him to make a very passable appearance for a rebel colonel ...

Johnson also described Teach in times of battle as wearing " a sling over his shoulders, with three brace of pistols, hanging in holsters like bandoliers ; and stuck lighted matches under his hat ", the latter apparently to emphasise the fearsome appearance he wished to present to his enemies.

When thrown at him, however, Oddjob simply leans to the side and dodges the hat with ease, causing it to get stuck between a pair of metal bars.

Ewing and co-founder Bob Young named their initial software after the hat, and the name Red Hat stuck.

The song " Yankee Doodle ", from the time of the American Revolutionary War, mentions a man who " stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni ," the joke being that the Yankees were naive enough to believe that a feather in the hat was a sufficient mark of a macaroni.

In F. Grice's telling of the traditional story The Duergar in Folk Tales of the North Country ( 1944 ), one of them is described as being short, wearing a lambskin coat, moleskin trousers and shoes, and a hat made of moss stuck with a feather.

There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close ''.

He moved in close, jerked the handsome, broad-brimmed beaver hat from Nate's head and clamped it on his own.

Horsely, an agent on the east end, wore the hat, trying to look like a tourist.

He had on his gray tweed overcoat and his city hat, and his brief case lay on the bench.

Vernon would tilt his hat over one ear as he lounged with his feet on the dashboard, indulging in a huge cigar.

He made his way to his host's bedroom where he carefully brushed himself off, neatly arranged his hair, and painstakingly selected his hat from the many on the bed.

Our suspicions eventually centered, by the process of elimination, on a grocer's boy, a thoroughly bad hat, who delivered cartons to the people overhead.

Even then, as you go into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something is cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable, official control, could you go on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand??

( I didn't have on a hat.

In large, atmospheric panoramas of the countryside, the highlights on a blade of meadow grass, the mane of a tranquil horse, the horn of a dairy cow reclining by a stream, or the tip of a peasant's hat are all caught in a bath of yellow ocher light.

Although he still wore a standard British officer's cap on arrival in the desert, he briefly wore an Australian broad-brimmed hat before switching to wearing the black beret ( with the badge of the Royal Tank Regiment next to the British General Officer's badge ) for which he became notable.

During " Thank God I'm a Country Boy ", Charlie Zill an usher in the club level sections ( 244 ) puts on overalls, straw hat, false teeth and starts dancing around.

According to David Robinson, unlike in more conventional slapstick comedies, the comic moments in Chaplin's films centred on the Tramp's attitude to the things happening to him: the humour did not come from the Tramp bumping into a tree but from his lifting of his hat to the tree in apology.

Here, in a supposedly smooth step from one room to another, the Tramp loses his hat in one room, but it is instantly back on his head as he enters the next room.

The coat of arms of a cardinal is indicated by a red galero ( wide-brimmed hat ) with 15 tassels on each side ( the motto and Escutcheon ( heraldry ) | escutcheon are proper to the individual cardinal ).

A precedent of the technique occurred during a Dadaist rally in the 1920s in which Tristan Tzara offered to create a poem on the spot by pulling words at random from a hat.

A snare drum with a top hat on it stood at the front of the stage as a tribute.

The team leader is identified by two pieces of crossed tape on the hard hat.

His body was found fully clothed, with a hat, overcoat and gloves, the next morning by a River House employee on a third-floor balcony.

Fred wears top hat and tails to the manor born — I put them on and look like a truck driver.