Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph of the class officers will be taken immediately afterward at Notman's Studio. All officers, including speakers and committeemen, are urged to be present, in cap and gown...
...nobleman; he goes roaming the fields with the girl beside him; and in their lovemaking this pair is as pleasant to see as the Tyrolian Alps that surround them. Though for generations the youngest son of the house of Enna has served the Church, this boy in the feathered cap only laughs at family tradition and says he was never made to be a priest. But one day, when the boy Rochus is in danger, his mother vows to the Virgin that she will make him a priest. Soon after this she dies; and Rochus feels obliged to redeem...
...cap his joy day, Premier Jorga said that a rich American had just offered to found an Institute of International Affairs at Bucharest. "His name is Mr. Chester D. Pugsley," said Professor Jorga, "and he lives in the city of Peekskill in the State of New York. I have been happy to accept on behalf of the Royal Government this magnificent offer." Diligently down a column of Who's Who, Lawyer-Banker Pugsley itemizes his 16 principal charitable bequests which foot up to a total $538.400, plus "40 oil portraits to institutions...
...Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, a dynamite cap which Rosette La Haye, 19, had used as an ornament on the tip of her pencil for a year, exploded, blew off three of her fingers, injured...
...elaborate exhibits made by nimble-fingered children. Each of the Manhattan apartment-dwellers who filed through the building was handed a little pamphlet warning him that to preserve the country's wild flowers he must never pick pink Lady's Slipper, Indian Moccasin, Liverleaf, Turk's-cap lily, Lady's Tresses, Rattlesnake Plantain. In moderation the Garden Club allows the picking of Grass of Parnassus, New Jersey Tea, Bluets, Clammy Azalea, Mad-Dog Skullcap and Virgin's Bower. If the urge to pick simply overpowers a city-dweller, the Garden Club begs...