Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Herbert Hoover ever wants to dedicate the $800,000 tomb of Warren Gamaliel Harding at Marion, Ohio, he will have to go, cap in hand, to the Harding Memorial Association and humbly beg its permission. The association is through importuning him to participate in a ceremony for which he apparently has no stomach...
...Author. William Somerset Maugham (pronounced "mawm"), 56, playwright, novelist, essayist, studied to be a doctor, knows how to articulate a skeleton, but prefers to do his dissecting in books. Of medium size and corpulence, with heavy, mustached face, he lives in Cap Ferrat, France, travels widely, stutters, has effeminate men friends. Though he has written some popular books and plays, his cynicism has kept the great public from crowning him a favorite. Says he cynically: "I have never called myself cynical. . . . I've always thought myself truthful." Author Maugham has written: The Trembling oj a Leaf, Of Human Bondage...
...student governing body at Dartmouth, has relegated all Freshmen restrictions to the limbo of the graduates' memory, where, no doubt, it will flourish for many years to come. Only one relic of school days remains for the first year man at Hanover; he must wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into bed of an evening fearing that somewhere...
...great bay horse in a red hood, with a white blaze on his nose, moving around a curve, down a midway, in a seemingly effortless gallop of matchless speed and strength; a jockey in a scarlet cap and white shirt splashed with great red polka dots?all season this has been the most exciting thing to be seen on U. S. tracks: William Woodward's Gallant Fox, with Earle Sande up. Last week on the last day of racing at Belmont Park, L. I., Gallant Fox won his ninth great victory of the season, the Jockey Club Gold...
Coming, however, as they do in the fall of the last year in college these tests do not realize their purpose. Instead of providing a background they cap the scene with an anti-climax. They are too late...