Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year as British naval attaché. "This is your ship. Captain," said the Admiral. "Might I ask what you propose to do?" When he heard what the ebullient Irish Captain Macnamara proposed to do, the Admiral's eyebrows rose straight up to the embroidered oak leaves on his cap. To Captain Macnamara, who had gone punting many a time as a boy, mud was no stranger. Bugles blew men to quarters. Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft...
...stage, flicked his heels together, spun on one foot until the audience felt exhausted. Once the girl took a flying leap and the boy caught her by one wrist and pulled her through the air. At the end of two hours the girl was wearing a flaming red cap, the boy a cockade on his chest and they were still going like...
...Banker Warburg's charge (TIME, Jan. 1) that LeBlanc wrote the Senator's speeches. Whatever theories Senator Thomas may have picked up from Banker LeBlanc the push behind his drive for inflation was his own. The developments of 1933 added many a feather to his political cap...
...same. Without makeup or disguise this super-Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had managed to be both M. Serge Alexandre, the supposedly philanthropic founder of Bayonne's Crédit Municipal, and also the notorious swindler M. Alexandre Stavisky, supposedly known to every detective in France. To cap all this the Founder, when last seen in public, was seated in his own leased box at a Paris theatre with none other than the Chief of Paris Police, M. Jean Chiappe...
Taping the children's mouths for noisiness was no worse than "sighted children compelled to wear a dunce's cap...