Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours no one would believe it. Finally, though, there was no denying it: The Meritorious One (El Benemerito), was really dead. President Juan Vincente Gomez. 78, had died quietly in his bed of the uremia from which he suffered for many a month. With his General's cap and all his medals beside him, they laid him out in the village church at Maracay. All night long barefoot peasants shuffled past, their black eyes wide with wonder. In his lifetime canny Dictator Gomez made much of the fact that he was born on July 24, a holiday celebrated throughout...
...patches above and behind each ear. These strands have been trained to twine like ivy about his polished brow. M. Besson sports a gaudy muffler yards long in winter, and a blue straw hat in summer. His temper is such that he can never see a braided cap, be it on a policeman, railway conductor, doorman or bellboy, without trying to bash...
Possibly the best known picture in the entire collection is the self-portrait of the aging Rembrandt in a velvet cap. Other famed numbers include Titian's Man in a Red Cap, Titian's portrait of the bearded, obscene Pietro Aretino; Raeburn's portraits of James Cruickshank & wife; the immensely valuable St. Francis in Ecstacy by Giovanni Bellini; eleven Fragonard panels for which Frick reputedly paid J. P. Morgan more than...
...Baltimore, Md., railroad men unlocked a refrigerator car that had been locked eleven days before in California, found Glenn Boldan, 14, who had run away from his home in Motley, Minn. Half-frozen, exhausted and starving, Glenn Boldan had survived by chewing on his shoetops, his cap and the seeds of several cotton bolls he had bought for souvenirs in California, by sucking on ice he pulled through a chink in the refrigerator...
...jackets of blue gabardine with crimson trim, two small H's on the collar lapel, a blue cap with a small crimson H, blue knickers, red stockings, and a red tie, all go to make the uniform of the Ski Team members...