Word: cap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years that he has built boats for the cup contests he had never allowed any fellow-countryman to make a challenge, always getting his own in first. Now 80, ruddy, genial, and almost professionally optimistic, he still affects the costume that appears in most photographs-blue serge suit, yachting cap, polka...
...Manhattan's Customs House last week a large blond man in a blue suit and yachting cap stepped up to the chief clerk of the Collector of the Port, asked for a ship's manifest form. A moment later Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau took oath as master of the flying boat 0-1422, then bobbing at her moorings in the East River after a flight from northern Germany (TIME, Sept. 1). He registered too for his crew of three students from the Deutsches Verkehrs Fliegerschule (German commercial flying school of which he is chief): Eduard Zimmer, copilot; Franz Hack, mechanic...
...medical joke: A man convalescing from a severe nose operation cried out to his nurse that he had to sneeze. "Go right ahead,'' said she, ''that shows you are getting better. It will be a great feather in my cap. "Very well," said the patient. "You just stand out of the way and I'll make?Kerchooo!?an Indian Chief...
...deck. There he found his employer's handkerchief. He ran to the bridge to tell Capt. John M. Kelley. The Sabalo put about. Foot by foot a searchlight's bright shaft swept a circle about the idling yacht, found only its own zig-zag reflection. (The owner's yachting cap was fished from the sea two days later...
Died. William Anderson ("Cap") Hatfield, 67, last surviving participant...