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Subbing straw hat riots
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Started conversation Apr 5, 2014
Hi Dmitri, I'll be your sub-ed today
A87826053 <--- don't forget to subscribe!
I'm done subbing if you'd like to ok it, I've added a few h2g2 links, corrected some typoes, tweaked a little bit here and there... added a photo
I'm happy with it. If you are, it can go back to the pending pile to await its appearance on the FP very soon
GB
Subbing straw hat riots
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Apr 5, 2014
Thanks, you lovely person.
Rereading this, I found a couple of instances of my own lack of variety in vocabulary. .The hat-engendered brawl<<
Please replace with 'the hat-engendered donnybrook'.
AND
>>Hats were snatched, men resisted,<<
Replace with: 'Hats were seized, men resisted.'
Otherwise, your work is impeccable, as always.
Subbing straw hat riots
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 6, 2014
thank you
I've tweaked those
While we're fine-tuning, I did wonder whether to ask you to reword "He could wear it in a January snowstorm, if he pleased. After all, he was an American." as that's just rehashing Magistrate Hatting's earlier comment.
I was thinking:
In 1925, the US President, one Calvin Coolidge, violated straw hat etiquette. It was remarked on in the New York Times, but no one in Washington, DC, dared to snatch the Chief Executive's boater. He could wear it during hurricane season, if he dared. After all, he was an American.
Subbing straw hat riots
Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 8, 2014
The polishing Ed has queried:
"By 1910, it had become a habit of playful young men to snatch their friends' belated straw boaters from their heads and destroy them. At the New York Stock Exchange, twenty-something brokers tore the offending objects from their colleagues' heads, and stamped them into trash."
by "twenty-something brokers" - do you mean they were all in their twenties, or there were over 20 men committing the destruction?
GB
And it's live!
h2g2 Guide Editors Posted Apr 20, 2014
Fashion Violence: The Straw Hat Riot of 1922 is now part of the Edited Guide. Congratulations Dmitri!
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