Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opera's Board Chairman, took the Jubilee Singers abroad after their New York success, to Stockholm where they gave 52 concerts in a single season, to England where Queen Victoria was a disappointment to them because she received them in a plain black dress and widow's cap, to Germany where the Crown Prince, father of the Kaiser of Doom, gave a glittering court reception more to their liking...
...sense of grey imprisonment, so successfully captured on the screen, is almost entirely lost on the stage. As if to atone for lack of convincing atmosphere, those responsible for Girls in Uniform have made the entente between Manuela and the teacher unwholesomely explicit-a doubtful benefit. And to cap that, Manuela of the play actually manages to destroy herself instead of making an abortive stab at it. Point of the cinema was that the frustrated little girl did not escape from the school, an institution not intended to be merely the scene of juvenile tantrums but something far more organic...
...Oilman Doherty watched the best girl swimmers of the land. Last week he was official host to the 78 entrants in the Miami Air Meet (see p. 24). He makes a point of entertaining potent people. At his New Year's Eve party he put on a paper cap and made much noise for his guests, Secretary & Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur. Last week Rear Admiral & Mrs. William Adger Moffett visited the Dohertys. If he had his way the "Winter Capital" would be Miami, not Washington or Warm Springs, and the Miami Biltmore would be the winter Mayflower...
...Soto has an automatic choke and retains the oval-shaped radiator which Byron P. Foy first saw on a racing car. The lady on the radiator-cap wears fewer drapes than during...
...Elections resigned from the Minseito to avoid expulsion after dickering with the Seiyukai Party to form a Coalition Cabinet. Japanese Fascism, the Kokumin Domei or National League, is his latest idea. Its flag: a golden eagle on a light brown background. Its uniform: black belted jacket, striped trousers, military cap. Its program: replacement of the Cabinet by a dictatorial council, government control of public utilities and shipping, increase in income tax, death duties, dividend tax; lowering of land taxes and local rates (bait for the farmers and petit bourgeois that are the mainstay of Fascism in every country...