Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Route No. 9, preceded by an automobile to clear traffic. The coach tooled along at a fine rate to the leafy little hamlet of Marlboro, site of the second change. At Freehold the party paused for luncheon, just two miles short of the best hamburg stand between Newark and Cape May. Tearing through Toms River, but not fast enough to become enmeshed in the speed traps just south of that place or embroiled with the neighborhood's notoriously strict taxidermist-justice of the peace, the Valiant reached Beachwood, stopped for the day. Actual driving time: 6:31:24. Average...
...blending with the shrieks and moans of the endless "dressing hours," do not goose step, wave flags, or cry for more and better wars. Neither are they yellow. I speak with an authority acquired in 18 months spent in such widely separated military hospitals as Royat, Brest, Fox Hills, Cape May, Camp Dodge and Fort Sheridan. Edith's contacts with war-shattered wrecks must have been more extensive than mine...
...second-rate carnival. The rest of the year Venetian amusements were penny-pinching, snuff-taking, gambling and adultery for the 40 ruling families. Venice's maritime power and the Mediterranean's role as the world's central sea had been ended by the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope route to the Orient. A declining 17th Century Venice could not defend outlying possessions. Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence...
...Cape country Author Harriss writes about was a fox country. Bears still snuffled through the woods, and otter and coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps...
Divorced. Alan John Villiers, 32, famed literary deep-water sailor (Grain Race, The Last of the Wind Ships, By Way of Cape Horn); by Daphne Kaye Harris Villiers; in Melbourne, Australia. Grounds: desertion. Rarely ashore in the past 17 years, Sailor Villiers two months ago piloted his full-rigger Joseph Conrad into Melbourne after a 16-month journey from England, prepared to set sail for an unnamed Pacific island in search of gold...