Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brown little Siamese in a white cap, hunched in the stern of a fragile racing shell on the Thames, barking shrill orders at eight lusty Britons who thrashed the grimy water with long oars, was the cynosure of 500,000 pairs of eyes for a few minutes one afternoon last week. He, Prince Komarakul-Na-Nagara, was coxswain of the Oxford varsity crew and for most of the first quarter of the race, his men held the lead he had shot them away to a few strokes after the start. But Cambridge pulled ahead at the mile and stayed there...
...nurse's white cap and the child's yellow hair looked like halos (see cut). Deliberately archaic, the little panel reminded Detroiters of medieval church paintings. Detroit's art fight started when some clergymen called the vaccination panel a sacrilegious parody. The Institute's secretary blasted back that anyone who saw the Holy Family in that picture "can see spooks in the dark!" One clergyman found a further slur on Christianity in the Gothic decorations of a commercial radio topped by an adding machine in the Parke, Davis panel. Director Valentiner retorted that the museum...
...pint of ale, and observe the passers-by with that careless insolence which is proper only to Vagabonds and dowagers. Or perhaps, driving in from a gay, day-long junketing in the newly green countryside, he and she would stop for a glass or two of sherry to cap off their Dutch cheese and devilled eggs, talking lightly of picnicking, the newest books, and love. Even in the darker moments that fell to his due, the Vagabond could betake himself to the official inn, as to a sanctuary. "A pint o' bitter, dearie," to the bar maid; and his solace...
Detectives Black and Blue (lodent). Listeners may get a checked Sherlock Holmes fore-&-aft cap...
...refused. Hurt to the quick, realizing at last that even a man with two daughters may be alone in the world, old Papa La Fleur stumbled off to his canoe, paddled out into the river in dangerously high water. Hours later they found the overturned canoe, his floating cap. And it turned out that Linnie, like Dolly, had had nothing to conceal. Remorsefully she told Milo she would marry...