Word: caped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon at 5 o'clock. At that time W. A. Harper '30 announced five additions to the list of nominees. Petitions have been received nominating for the vice-presidency Everett Augustus Grant '32, of Aliston, Richard Norman Clark Jr. '32 of Atlanta, Georgia, and Walter Archer Beyer '32 of Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Mark Woodbury '32, of New York and James Barr Ames '32 of Wayland were nominated for the office of secretary-treasurer...
Turnips, celery and onions were hotly discussed. Congressman Fish (New York) pleaded with the Committee to give special attention to a high duty on celery grown under glass, as many of his constituents, celery growers, were existing only on Red Cross bounty. . . . Congressman Gifford (Massachusetts) describing himself as a Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers...
Lady Bailey, 39, landed her plane at Croydon airport, near London. She had been on-the-way from Cape Town, South Africa, since May 12. Trouble in the jungle and with stubborn British colonial officials, she said. But nonetheless Lady Bailey tossed off her helmet proudly; she had completed a round trip of 18,000 miles, something her rival, Lady Heath, had never done; furthermore, she had beaten Lady Heath in that strange shuttle race of last spring...
...Lady Bailey flew from London to Cape Town one week faster than Lady Heath flew from Cape Town to London (TIME, April...
...gutters from Frisco to Bombay, Melbourne to Cape Town, the Salvation Army was on the job, inviting harassed and stricken souls to the peace which passeth understanding, doling alms. Some were saved and some scoffed; but neither gave three thoughts to a lonely old man in an isolated cottage in Southwold, Suffolk, who spent last week some harassed, stricken nights. He was General William Bramwell Booth, commander of the Salvation Army.* He was afraid of his sister, Commander Evangeline Booth of the Army in America...