Word: capa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rather than try to think up super-scorching things to say about Foch's spiritual son, the editor of L'Oeuvre (Radical) merely quoted these words from Clemenceau : "Weygand is a dangerous man, capa ble in moments of crisis of going...
...apart, in a square on the floor of a Manhattan armory, 50 chessboards had been set up. Behind each board sat four men. In the middle of the square, alone against 200, stood a dapper, rather handsome man with keen eyes and a high forehead. He was the great Capa-Jose Raoul Capablanca-onetime chess champion of the world, newly returned to the U. S. after playing for two years abroad. He was competing with more players at once than any chess master had ever tried before;* it looked as if the job was too hard for him. Right...
From 3p. m. to midnight Capa walked the armory floor. It was 150 yards around the square. He traveled round it some 40 times. The men he was playing against were the best chess players in Manhattan, but he had begun to win. Although he made 50 moves to every one by his opponents, he often got around the square before a team was ready for him. He. for his part, would stop at a table, glance at the 64 squares, tap his finger once or twice on the edge of the board, and move. Always he attacked, usually with...