10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORKPIE HAT»
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porkpie hat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
porkpie hat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Goodbye
Porkpie Hat: Short Story
Michael Christie’s darkly funny debut collection won the Vancouver Book Award; it was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
2
The red, white & blue monster song book, ed. by J. Diprose
The beautv and grace of a porkpie hat, For the ladies wear the porkpie hat, And a
gent's all there in a porkpie hat, The Jerry and Wideawake's knocked flat, By the
elegant form of the porkpie hat. Tho' if minus a parachute it's plain You're out, ...
3
The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton
his vaudeville skills out of habit, but these extrafictional moments also satisfied
the audience's desire for virtuoso performances. Yet Keaton straddled the line
between the extrafictional — as indicated by his acrobatics, stunts, and porkpie
hat ...
4
Hats and Headwear around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia: ...
PORKPIE HAT Although many men's hats have inspired female-style chapeau,
there are few cases of the reverse. Notably, the porkpie hat is one example. First
coined in the 1850s, this headwear term referred to a woman's flat pillbox worn
by ...
As I walked out at Margate, It' was but tli' other day, A Jew there sat in a "Porkpie"
hat, At a window that was bay. I stood and gazed upon him, To assure me of his
race ; I knew not his name, but his birth was pLin As the nose upon his face !
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1860
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Hollywood Comedians, the Film Reader
... then, are the very first things seen in the film Buster Keaton also uses
accoutrements of his familiar costume to refer to his star persona Even in Our
Hospitality 1 19231, a film set in the eighteenth century, Keaton wears his familiar
porkpie hat ...
7
Fashion 101: A Crash Course in Clothing
In 1959, Charles Mingus composed a tune, “Goodbye Porkpie Hat,” a song
aboutjazz great Lester Young, who was known for wearing this style. A decade
later, ska musicians picked up the look, wearing them with pencil-thin ties and
suits.
8
Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms
PORK-BARREL LEGISLATION See Pork. PORK-BARREL POLITICS Sec Pork.
PORK CHOP See Chopping Block. PORK OUT See Eat Like a Pig. PORKPIE
HAT a porkpie hat. A men's cloth hat with a flat top and a narrow brim. MWCD:
1860.
Robert Allen Palmatier, 2000
9
Drawing to an Inside Straight: The Legacy of an Absent Father
As I opened the shutters over the dining room windows, the man in the porkpie
hat knocked on the door, asked if I was pleased with the house, and offered to
show me where the market and bakery were. He shuffled in front of me along the
...
10
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
[In shape resembling a porkpie, or the Spanish 'toreador,' fashionable
intheNineties.] i86[?]. Music Hall Song, 'In the Strand.'A porkpie hat with a little
feather. 1S60. Punch,xxxix. 118.' O,look heretBill;here's a swell with a Porkpie on
his head!
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORKPIE HAT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
porkpie hat is used in the context of the following news items.
Disney's big-budget production descends on Victoria
a DJ wearing a porkpie hat spun Set It Off, a catchy electronic dance number that triggered another frenzy of inventive, high-energy dance ... «The Province, Jul 15»
An Even More Absurd 'Wet Hot American Summer'
... until he ends up wearing a black porkpie hat. “Coop, as in the original movie, is the sort of spiritual through-line because he is that Everyman ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
Vivian McInerny: Portland's Fashion Ambassador
This guy I stopped had a porkpie hat on and he said he was “keeping it for a friend in the pen.” Everyone we stopped, if you talked to them ... «Portland Monthly, Jul 15»
7 Transportation Plot Lines Better Than the High-Speed Rail …
Vaughn, wearing a porkpie hat and a bow tie, saunters into a public meeting in small-town Vinci to peddle a monorail system. “I hear those ... «CityLab, Jul 15»
What Creativity Is Not
Just because I wear a porkpie hat, and have a little goatee, doesn't make me creative. Oftentimes, in spite of my job title, I'm the most dull, ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
Who Let the Dogs Out?A playlist for the dog days of summer
... lists the real-life horrors of pre-Thatcher Britain. Not that you needed to back Labour to prowl 'n' growl the dance floor in your porkpie hat. «Austin Chronicle, Jul 15»
Bluegrass legends Doyle Lawson and Larry Efaw will keep music …
Two years ago you couldn't watch a commercial break on television without hearing some porkpie hat- and vest-wearing bearded indie folkster ... «Akron Beacon Journal, Jul 15»
Demons haunted 'Night Stalker' creator Jeff Rice
... the image of Kolchak in his wrinkled seersucker suit and cocked porkpie hat, notebook and tape recorder in hand, chasing shadows up blind ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
REVIEW: Madness - Newmarket Racecourse
... which closed the evening perfectly and caused a mass sing-along and swaying amongst the sea of fez and porkpie hat wearing faithful. «Diss Express, Jul 15»
An Homage to a Special Kind of Caddie From a Special Kind of Era
Golf Ball in his prime was cocky man in a porkpie hat who didn't walk the Tour's fairways, he strutted them, as if they were his personal property. «Golf.com, Jul 15»
