Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years a State bird observer and was one of the first sportsmen to recognize the possibilities of the Cape for duck shooting, doing much to popularize the sport around Boston. In his younger days he was well known for his painting of wild life and especially noted for his pictures of water fowl both of which have been on exhibition in many places in the last 30 years...
...About the bad luck of the Hope diamond?" rattled on Mrs. McLean. "Well, it has never brought me bad luck. I think my life is charmed in that respect. But I had a friend on the Carinthia, the ship in which I made the North Cape cruise, and he held the diamond in his pocket for two hours and now I understand he's lying at death's door...
Nevertheless, when the trumpets brayed and the white-ruffled Alguaciles rode out to catch the keys to the arena in their plumed hats last month, it was great-jawed, ugly BELMONTE himself who led the parade with his embroidered cape twisted across his back and over his arm. For a long-retired veteran's comeback it had not been an unsuccessful season. All of his old courage, most of his old skill, were still on display. Because he always worked closer to the horns than other bullfighters, he had been tossed many times in a few weeks, but never...
...pineapple and sugar plantations, out to Schofield Barracks to lunch with Major-General Briant H. Wells, review 15,000 troops. That evening he dined at Iolani Palace with Governor Poindexter. At a great luau (native feast) he received the great men of the islands, was robed in a leather cape which made him a member of the island nobility, did not get away until midnight to his bed at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel...
...huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length fringed skirt, an elegantly curled beard. The Mother Goddess, somewhat shorter than her consort, wore a close-fitting garment like a slip, with an almost modern cape effect on one side. The statues were ascribed to the Sumerian culture...