Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With her two hefty sons, Tom and Chris, she operates the Greene Line, founded by her late husband. At 68, she can do most shipboard jobs, bosses her crews without profanity, likes to sew and embroider on deck. Recently "Ma" Greene bought for $135,000 the old-style packet Cape Girardeau which Chicago's onetime Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson used to use for political junkets. Renamed the Gordon C. Greene for "Ma" Greene's husband, she was ready last week, with 100 passengers and 700 tons of whiskey, soap and paint, to re-open steamboat passenger service between...
More than 8,000 Iowans praised the performance, drove away humming I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls and Then You'll Remember Me. A match for the singing was the ingenuity shown in the homemade costumes. A wine-colored cape had once been a feather tick. Old lace curtains had been doctored beyond recognition. The barefooted "gypsies" shook pie-plate tambourines, wore chicken-feed sacking which had been dyed yellow and scarlet, trimmed with bits of shiny tin. Average cost per costume...
Osterville, Cape Cod, was the scene of the reunion of the twenty-year Class yesterday. Members of the Class are expected back, however, for the festivities in Cambridge today. Tomorrow they will have their headquarters in Thayer 3, and luncheon will be served at the alumni tent...
...plans are we have nothing to say. We don't know whether to stick around the house and loaf and catch up on some reading, or get some kind of an outdoor job that will put us in shape. I suppose we will have to go up to the Cape with the family after all. That's not much fun. There's nobody up there any more. We'd sort of like to get the boat in shape--scrape her down and put a few new coats of paint on her. We might go out to Wyoming to that dude...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...