Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night, or when squalling, grimacing Bert Lahr is bilked by a stockbroker. But plenty of people will be amused by Cartoonist Robert Wildhack who brings to the footlights an old trick that made his Victor record, "Snores & Sneezes," famed some 20 years ago. Mr. Wildhack timidly comes onstage in cap & gown, nervously thumbing a notebook, to lecture on labial "Sound Phenomena." With authentic academic embarrassment, he takes up snores, classifies them scientifically, self-consciously illustrates them. Snore 2 d, the "Westinghouse Airbrake," a heart-rending grunt followed by a melancholy whistle, is probably excelled only by 2 f, "The Troubled...
...helmet of ice 100 to 150 ft. thick caps British Columbia's Mt. Robson, tallest (12,292 ft.) of the Canadian Rockies. From the ice cap's edge huge fragments occasionally break off and start avalanches. A Bostonian named Henry S. Hall and his Swiss guide had the pluck to defy this danger, the luck to escape it, were last week picking their way down from Mt. Robson's glittering summit...
...Kurt Schuschnigg, new Chancellor of Austria, arrived in Florence for an interview like those that Benito Mussolini and the late Engelbert Dollfuss used to hold. At the railway station Il Duce met his guest in an all-purpose costume consisting of brown sack suit, riding boots and yachting cap. Most of his staff, during a lull in their enforced tour of duty with the troops, were still in uniform. A gay note was the guard of honor, dressed in 14th Century Florentine helmets and breastplates and carrying not Fascist banners, but the ancient white fleur-de-lis of the Republic...
...better not go deeper (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week not a hunch but lack of cable held him back. Down went the bathysphere, down past all previous records, down to 3,028 ft. At that point only 47 ft. of cable were left on the winch above. The barge cap tain ordered that no more be paid out. The bathysphere was kept at the new record depth for five minutes. "I'll tell the world," said Dr. Beebe, after he crawled out on deck, "that this is the last time I'll attempt record-breaking dives...
Today, at 45, U. S. Citizen Sikorsky is once again as famed as he was in Russia 20 years ago. Shy, gentle, absentminded. he lives in Longhill, Conn, with his wife and three children, usually covers his high bald forehead with an old greasy checkered cap...