Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November 1911 Scott started south from winter quarters on Cape Evans with dogs, ponies, sledges. On the way the ponies were killed to feed men and dogs. Phenomenally good weather was soon followed by blizzards. Deep snow held the party in a soft vise. On Dec. 14 Scott wrote, "We are just starting our march with no very hopeful outlook." That same day the famed Norwegian, Roald Amundsen, traveling fast by a different route, became the first man to reach the South Pole...
...dinner for the hotel owners of a dozen nations must have given pause to even the tall, amiable president of the Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...
Qualifications: "Comes from rugged pioneer stock--seafarers and pioneers of Cape...
George S. Franklin, Jr. '36, of New York, N. Y., Harold H. Freedlander '35, of Wooster, O., Hyman H. Gass '35, of Lynn, Mass., Paul E. Geier '36, of Cincinnati, O., Edward T. Gignoux '37, of Cape Elizabeth, Me., Hyman Goldenstein '36, of Somerville, Mass., Paul C. Henshaw '36, of Rye, N. Y., Harry H. Hershmann '37, of Dorchester, Mass., Abraham Hertzberg '35, of New York, N. Y., Sidney D. Hoffman '36, of Brookline, Mass., Lemuel B. Hunter '37, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., Herbert M. Irwin, Jr. '37, of Port Washington, L. I., N. Y., Richard W. Ittelson...
Loping over the Equatorial highlands of Kenya, about midway along-Africa's Cape Town-to-Cairo all-British backbone, a giraffe ran into a telegraph pole last fortnight and interrupted the African telegraph service the late great Cecil Rhodes was always worrying about. The news humming over the wires before the giraffe butted in would have interested Rhodes...