Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submachine gun in her lap. There were two other machine guns, another sawed-off automatic shotgun, six automatic pistols, a revolver, a saxophone, sheet music, a half-eaten sandwich, a bloody package of cigarets, and $507 in cash in the car. "I hated," said Captain Hamer, "to bust a cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down...
Benign in his little red skull cap His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, to whom Pietro Yon had dedicated his oratorio, sat in a box and listened raptly while Tenor Frederick Jagel, the Saint of the evening, sang first as a shepherd boy, then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...
...choking her and knocking her down. Her hysterical screams bring a crowd. Unwilling to implicate her lover, she babbles that a Negro attacked her. Among the colored folk arrested for questioning is Lonnie. Unlike the other dejected crows in the lineup, big Lonnie refuses to drool servilely: "Yassuh, cap'n. . . . Nawssuh. cap'n. . . . Dat's right, cap'n. . . ." He has been helping a white labor organizer recruit a stevedores' union on the Stuyvesant Docks. He stubbornly stands for his rights, makes a bad impression at the police station...
...time the Red Shirts and the Paul Street Boys arrange to have a pitched battle for the vacant lot, Nemecsek has his promotion and an officer's cap but they do him small good. He is in bed with pneumonia, too ill to remember anything except that he will not be on hand to help. It turns out that Nemecsek does not miss the battle. He clambers out of bed, staggers desperately into the thick of the scuffle, jumps at the throat of the leader of the Red Shirts. This feat of valor does more than...
...Halifax went the Cunarder Scythia last week for Liverpool and the Continent. In its hold was a heavy Excelsior limousine whose radiator cap bore the letter A circled by a crown. It was bound for Brussels to take its place in a museum beside other personal relics of the late great Albert of the Belgians...