Word: caped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cape Cod, where he still grows cranberries, and to which he returns every summer with his son, that Glendon Sr. first loved the water. At 19, he was made official coach of the Boston A. A. He has never stopped coaching since. Between him and his son exists a quiet undemonstrative affection. Glendon Jr. calls his father "Dick." His father answers with "Rich...
Asia and Back. All alone, Parker Cramer took off last week from Nome, Alaska, flew out over ice-filled Bering Strait, dropped packages at Cape Wales and on Diomede Island, reached East Cape in Siberia, returned to Nome: 400 mi. roundtrip. Next flight: from Nome to New York (not non-stop...
...composographs and very good composographs they have turned out to be. There is something bold and fine in the conception of a pair of apteryxes defying gunners on the top of the chimneys of the Cambridge Gas Company. There is a charming and not heavily exaggerated view of the Cape Cod Canal; and the aviation photographs strike a not which is but seldom sounded in the current rotogravures...
...bygone age, he distills the essence of proverbial Southern romance, imprisons it in luxuriant prose: "The deep South, like a conservatory, was sweet with flowers. The isolated burial grounds, approached by avenues of cedars, and shaded with willows and live oaks and linden, were planted with white flowers-Cape jasmines, bridal wreath, white japonica, sweet alyssum and white althea. In the strange white radiance of Alabama moonlight white flowers-Cherokee roses, the night-blooming cereus, moon flowers and honey-suckle-were sweeter than at any other time. . . . "Yet, against all that tenderness of beauty, in spite of an apparent transcendent...
...engine, as it stands now, takes the place of the famous old Lampoon engine which Bob Lampoon and his associates purchased several years ago from the town of Sandwich, when that colony on the Cape replaced its old engine with modern fire apparatus. Lampy always brought his engine to the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon ball game and at one time parked it in front of the CRIMSON building from which vantage point it pumped water on all the editors who were on the balcony. This however is the only time that the engine ever-pumped water after its purchase...