Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the New Jersey Assembly appropriated $35,000 for an investigation of the mayor of Wildwood, a hardened little resort town and fishing port between Atlantic City and Cape May. At the same time Wildwood's Independent Taxpayers' League announced they would circulate a petition demanding the Mayor's resignation. Such news might pain an ordinary U. S. mayor, but not Wildwood's 41-year-old Doris Warren Bradway. She is used to trouble...
...Jersey Democrats would like to break up Mayor Bradway's Republican machine and get Cape May County back into the Democratic column. Last winter Democratic Senators protested the seating of Cape May County's Senator-elect William C. Hunt on the grounds that votes had been fraudulently switched to him by Wildwood Republicans. So tense was this situation that U. S. Senator-elect William Henry Smathers remained for three months in his old seat in the State Senate, divided 11 to 10 between the parties, to help balance Senator-suspect Hunt. During the investigation, Mayor Bradway...
...artists, from 28 States, distributed $5,000 in medals and prizes. Most of the best-known younger artists in the U. S. were represented. First prize ($2,000) went to Edward Hopper for one of his familiar old houses, painted in the sharp yellow light of a Cape Cod afternoon. Second prize ($1,500) and a silver medal went to Painter-Critic Guy Pène du Bois for a solidly painted young girl, stiffly upright in a chair. Pennsylvania Academy Instructor Francis Speight took the third prize for a farm woman collecting her mail. Critics found little of outstanding...
Ricardo Garcia had been the sensation of his year, had won his niche in the matador's hall of fame by his "immortal quite" (series of passes with the cape drawing the bull away from the fallen picador). But at the height of his fame & fortune, he was so badly gored in the lung that he had to quit for the season, later announced his permanent retirement. He continued to live at matador pace, scattering money like crumbs to many a hungry bird. His mistress, Marilena, was Ricardo's greatest expense and biggest trouble. When she saw there...
...described in words and gestures the districts of Hawaii, the torments of despised loves, the varieties of Hawaiian fish. Connoisseurs were interested in her seated dances wherein she swayed from the waist, wriggled sinuous arms, clicked a pair of pebbles called ili ili. Mikel Hanapi, dressed in a cape of red and yellow feathers which Huapala had made, and his Ilima Islanders supplied the music. Though they are now employed by a radio station in Hartford, they are natives who know well how to use gourds, coconut shells and rattles, as well as the steel guitar...