Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly to the stubborn stodginess of the Boers themselves, even more to their galumphing dialect, a certain drabness of atmosphere has beclouded every novel of the Cape Colony, from Olive Schreiner's Story Of An African Farm on down. Swift, even melodramatic though The Turning Wheels is, many a reader will come an early cropper over words like baas, kopje, kloof, veldt, mevrou, spruit* with which its text is besprinkled, over the de Jongs, Zwart Pietes, van der Bergs, van Reenens who make up its confusing cast of characters. But once these obstacles are hurdled, the surviving reader...
...National Association of Audubon Societies has established another hawk sanctuary at Cape May, N. J. All hawks, save the bird-eating sharp-shinned, Cooper's and goshawk, are rather beneficial than harmful and are protected in 15 States...
Youngest, most eccentric in the year's rash of musical moppets is Chicago's David ("Dudy") Davis, 6, a violinist being kept under cover for later, safer release. A raw-vegetarian and nudist, Dudy is taken to school bundled in a large cape, stripped down to a loin cloth when he practices. Even so, he is sometimes too hot, and cries: "I'm sweating bullets...
...carcass, called by the artist a "Premonition of Civil War," was one of the amazingly few paintings which reflected current world passions. To U. S. art enthusiasts several challengers appeared in the lively array of paintings by 107 U. S. artists: Edward Hopper's Corcoran Gold Medal Winner, Cape Cod Afternoon, Charles Sheeler's immaculately conceived City Interior, Frank Mechau's Last of the Wild Horses. Only U. S. painter in the money, however, was Manhattan's Robert Philipp, who won first honorable mention ($400) with Dust to Dust, a dustless scene of mourners standing...
Captain James Job Trolley is a tall, leathery pioneer eccentric, complete with cape and beaver hat, whose "monstrous antics" and windy wit have made him for half a century the liveliest landmark in Denver (called Goldtown). Nominally he is the mining editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald, at a life salary of $15 a week; in practice his daily pieces automatically go in the managing editor's wastebasket. His real mission in life is to fight the 20th Century. Tourists, those "fleas on the world's back." who always go for him with cameras, he always goes...