Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning the President tarried at Gloucester to have some fun. Aboard the Amberjack II he received Captain Ben Pine of the racing fisherman Gertrude L. Thebaud. Their last meeting was in Washington whither "Cap'n" Pine had sailed the Thebaud to ask for a higher tariff on fish (TIME, May I). The President was given an oil painting of the Thebaud which moved him to exclaim: "I think the painting is particularly lovely and I'll hang it in my study in the White House. (Gesturing toward the Thebaud) Isn't she a grand vessel! Look...
...affair. Some 10,000 passes were given out for the first performances but to the management's amazement hundreds had to be turned away from the boxoffice. Passes were discontinued but people went on fighting to get into the Hippodrome (nearly 6,000 cap ). The repertoire was enlarged to include other standard operas. Carmen was to be given with a real live hull. The casts hastily scrambled together were surprisingly good. The orchestra was ragged, the scenery shoddy...
...instalment which cast a bloody light on certain early Mormon doings. In filming Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's thriller, Fox was evidently so concerned about injuring Mormon feelings that an entirely new and different story is told. Only the old rooms in Baker Street, the pipe, tweed cap and violin of sagacious Sherlock Holmes remain unaltered. New film Holmes is Reginald Owen, a twangy-voiced high comedian who gave theatregoers much pleasure in The Play's the Thing and Petticoat Influence...
...delivered Vienna, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, led the Heimwehr battalions into Vienna. Opposite the balcony of Schonbrunn Palace where stood Chancellor Dollfuss, the battalions smartly executed "Eyes! Right!" The eyes went back to "Front!" slowly because little Dollfuss faced them in the black cap, black trousers and green grey tunic of an officer in the Imperial Jager Regiment. Since 1918 no Austrian official had worn that uniform...
...tentative program calls for a "cap and gown" parade down Pennsylvania avenue...