Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evelyn Orcham is Imperial Palace's director, beloved autocrat. At 4:30 a.m. he is about to set out for the meat market with his buyer, when in come Tycoon Sir Henry Savott, his lovely daughter Gracie, late arrivals from a liner. Gracie admires Evelyn at sight, sets her cap at him, will not be happy till she gets him. In Paris she finally lands him, makes herself his mistress for two tempestuous days. Meanwhile Tycoon Savott has arranged a gigantic international hotel merger, wants Imperial Palace as its keystone, Evelyn as manager of the whole affair. Evelyn is tempted...
...firedamp. It is 77.5% to 98.2% methane ("marsh gas"), mixed with almost negligibe quantities of other poisonous, highly inflammable gases. Its presence is usually detected by a pale, violet-blue "cap" above the miners' safety-lamps...
...cap German murmurings for a moratorium on Reparations payments (TIME, Oct. 27), came last week a clear-cut statement from Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald...
...Undergraduate Council calls to the notice of the Freshman Class the following important and traditional customs: 1. Only black ties may be worn by Freshmen. This restriction applies only until Washington's birthday. 2. The regulation head-dress for Freshmen is a black skull cap. 3. Freshmen may not walk on the grass. 4. Freshmen may not smoke on the street or on the Campus. 5. Freshmen may not enter Renwick's. 6. Freshmen may not use the walk in front of Nassau Hall or McCosh Walk. 7. Freshmen are not allowed on Prospect Street at any time. 8. Freshmen...
...stocky man in a blue coat and peaked cap was in the funeral cortège?Dr. Hugo Eckener. He related a meteorological phenomenon of the disaster night which might account for the R-101 flying close to the ground. As the Graf Zeppelin landed from a flight that same night, barometric pressure fell so suddenly that the Graf Zeppelin's altimeter (on the ground) indicated that she was still 400 ft. in the air. The R-101's navigator might have believed himself 400 ft. higher than he actually...