Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly three months. In the summer, when the sun never sets from May 13 to July 29, remaining visible for 18 hours daily until autumn, there is a busy trade in fish, reindeer, eiderdown, fox pelts, whale oil. Occasionally a cruise ship on the way to bleak North Cape, 75 miles farther on, drops anchor to give its passengers a chance to swim in the warm water, pick flowers, stare at the flat-faced Lapps. The town is not much to see, standing in a few clumps of transplanted birches on a barren island. Largely of wood, it was rebuilt...
...Ballet Master George Balanchine and his collaborator Paul Tchelitchev offered was the most inept production that present-day operagoers have witnessed on the Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great white...
Smuts was born (1870) a British subject, because his father's farm happened to be in British territory (Cape of Good Hope), but he was an out-&-out Boer. A solemnly earnest, religious youth, he worked to such good purpose at college in Stellenbosch that he won a scholarship to Cambridge. Back in Capetown after graduation he hung out his shingle as a lawyer. Empire-building Cecil Rhodes had his eye on Smuts, intended to make him one of his young men. And Smuts, believing in Rhodes's dream of a united South Africa, was eager to follow...
...work of one man, Sir Alfred-later Lord-Milner, British High Commissioner.) Once it started, the Boers thought their 60,000 burghers had a good chance of winning. They had beaten the British before, at Majuba: they remembered the successful U. S. War of Independence: they expected the Cape Colony to rise and hoped for help from Europe. The first months of the war were encouraging, but then the weight of numbers began to tell. Just before the British took Pretoria, the Transvaal capital. State Attorney Smut? robbed a bank of its Government funds, sent them off to safety. That...
...fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers there would rise. In his saddlebags he carried two books: a Greek Testament, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. The British stuck grimly to his heels. There was no rising, and his raid was an almost continuous running fight. His march of 700 miles...