Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that exercise the divine rights. So Miss Dane promptly moved the time up a century or so and changed the name of her heroes to Broome, for Plantagenet was first given as a nick-name to Geoffrey of Anjou because he always were a spring of broom in his cap...
...Charles Jefferson Miller of New Orleans, the College's president, in red-collared academic robe and gold-tasseled mortarboard cap, upbraided lay critics of medical men. He denounced "those articles in magazines whose standards, one used to believe, were rather higher than the publication of half truths and misrepresentations and downright falsehoods. I confess that a rather unworthy suspicion has crossed my mind that it has perhaps been easier for our traducers to gain a hearing than it has been for our defenders Here & there a physician has raised his voice, not always, I am sorry to say, with very...
When Dr. Miller ended his speech he took off cap and gown, helped them on to Dr. Allen Buckner Kanavel (pronounced Kuh-nave'-ul) of Chicago. By robing, Dr. Kanavel assumed the presidency of the College. He is a smaller man than retiring President Miller. The official sleeves hung over his wrists as he swung into an official flaying of social and industrial medicine not guided by responsible doctors...
...Julius Rosenwald Foundation, for example, in co-operation with States and counties has established 5,000 primary schools for colored children, at least one in almost every county of 14 Southern States. Negroes gratefully call Mr. Rosenwald, whose mail order catalogs they used before they could use his textbooks, "Cap'n Julius...
...story relates the plight of a continental diva who in persuing her career has neglected to find time for those elements of romance which seem to be conducive to full artistic expression. Driven to desperation by the indifference of a paternal, middle-aged fiance, the comely vocalist throws her cap over the windmill, seeking solace in the arms of an unknown admirer, who is at first disillusioned by the young lady's forwardness, but cannot help revealing his love and the fact that he is an American impresario with a contract for the singer...