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• “The celebration was held at the same Trafalgar Square church where Benenson, a bowler-hatted barrister, slipped away from work in 1961 and sat alone to dream up what has become the world's most renowned human rights organisation.”

  The Guardian: Amnesty International marks 50 years of fighting for free speech

• “Magritte's chief protagonist was not some decadent dreamer or shaman but an apparently thoroughly bourgeois bowler-hatted businessman, the otherworld doppelganger of the deadpan artist himself.”

  The Guardian: This week's new exhibitions

• “Chef Ian – clearly from the bowler-hatted section of Northern Ireland – started gibbering with nerves.”

  The Guardian: Rewind radio: The Archers; Victoria Derbyshire; Keys and Gray; It's Your Round – review

• “Mr. Tisseron and others believe that these relatives, who were twins, inspired the bowler-hatted Thompson twins, with their malapropisms, sartorial misfires and social insecurity.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Tintin & Co.

• “Right there with you on all counts, though you didn't mention my favorite actor in the movie, Tom Waits as the bowler-hatted, junkyard-growling Mr. Nick .....”

  The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

• “The bowler-hatted reserve that had previously characterised the City was replaced by a new breed of traders, hungry to compete for bonuses.”

  The Guardian: Big Bang's shockwaves left us with today's big bust

• “At the rear of the set is a small screen that relays video and animation vaguely related to the none-too-clear story line: During the bowler hat shtick, for instance, bowler-hatted cartoon people appear on the screen.”

  The Washington Post: Creative Cirko De Mente evokes . . . well, it's hard to say

• “The temptation is to account for the success of this anthropomorphic cleaning tool through its eccentric Englishness (it dates from the days when cartoons of bowler-hatted little men advertised flour).”

  The Guardian: Can manufacturing fill Britain's economic vacuum?

• “Or that early morning bike ride, where his grinning bandit charms Katharine Ross out of Robert Redford's bed as if he were a bowler-hatted knight on a rickety steed in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

  Paul Newman: A rare breed

• “Good evening, Doctor Bellis, a bowler-hatted porter said to Eric as he passed through the front dorm to pick up his mail.”

  Simon & Schuster: George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt

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