You're givin' him the HIGH HAT! The term, as all fans of "Miller's Crossing" know, means putting on upper-class airs. High-Hat Can Man seems a bit cruel, though, and I wonder what evolutionary proces put his arms on the bottom of his body.

The liberal use of "quotes" indicates that the term was used to set off a term, much as it's used today, to great derision.

The Can Manufacturers Institute is still at it.