Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gloucester, Mass. for a summer cruise to the Azores and around Cape Horn sailed the 90-ft, schooner Wander Bird, with a professional captain, a crew of 13 schoolboys, including 16-year-old John Morgan, grandson of Banker J. P. Morgan...
...India must at once be got into safe shape. In this queasy moment it was British and it was brave to get ready to believe that the new Lifeline of Empire is better, stronger and more glorious than the old. It runs clear around Africa, past the ominous Cape, whose storms were once so deadly to sailing ships. It is no narrow, canalized affair of jealous Europe's pesky little Mediterranean or rebellious Egypt's Suez, but a broad route over the bounding main...
...much is saved by not paying canal tolls that the cost is "about the same." Famed Hector Charles Bywater, usually considered the journalistic mouthpiece of the British Admiralty, came out with the great discovery, which would have been dismissed a short time ago as nonsense, that via the Cape of Good Hope it is only 10% longer to Melbourne, Australia than via Suez; only 37% longer to Hong Kong; 44% longer to Singapore; 51% longer to Calcutta; and a mere 77% longer to the "Gateway of India," Bombay. That His Majesty's subjects should be invited by Hector Bywater...
Seated at a flower-decked table was His Majesty in blue-serge trousers, silk blouse and flowing black cape with his children in well-tailored, tweedy sports clothes and flannels. Roared hearty British voices: "Welcome to the land of the free! Hurrah for the one and only Emperor of Ethiopia! Down with Mussolini...
...have dreams which waking experiences later confirmed. He dreamed, for example, that his watch had stopped at a certain time, woke to find that it had indeed stopped at that time. He had prophetic dreams of the Martinique volcano explosion and earthquake, of the arrival in Khartoum of a Cape-to-Cairo expedition, of a tragic factory fire in Paris. No gull for swamis and crystal-gazers, Soldier Dunne thought he might be falsely imagining, when he read of some event in a newspaper, that he had previously dreamed...