Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary bishop's cope (bell-shaped cape of stiffened fabric) costs about $100; a fancy, jeweled one at least $5,000. Presiding Bishop James De Wolf Perry had his cope packed and shipped to Philadelphia in a case big enough for a piano; also his mitre of gold lace and jewels. Bishop Perry followed along, unmindful of alarums raised by his church's Protestant "gadfly," Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (TIME, Oct. 30). Bishop Perry insisted that he represented the whole Episcopal Church and would continue...
...main sheet, leaving their Socratic mentors in the Yard to find them new questions for the winter bluebook season. But they do not leave Dr. Lowell behind. Harvard's honored ex-president spent three days of July cruising from Mr. Desert Island in Maine, to Marlon on the Cape, and had so much animal spirits left when he arrived there that he insisted on rowing the rest of the schooner's crew around the Harbor in a dinghy. Exercise is essential to Dr. Lowell; walking on land, rowing on water...
...Transcript's stories of last year, has not disappeared over the summer. Probably it has increased a bit, as the following piece of news should prove. Needing a secretary in his new job, President Conant was given the name of Vernon Munroe, '31. Vernon was summering on the Cape, when he received a call from Cambridge. The ensuing conversation was on this order...
...second time in three days the New Jersey coast took a terrific beating. The hurricane swept away the 300-ft. pier at Cape May where U.S. Marines patrolled the streets to guard citizens against fallen wires. The high combers devoured two sections of Atlantic City's famed boardwalk. Barnegat Light, 75 years old, was imperilled when the sea munched away the land to within 15 ft. of its foundations...
...floor, was soon making ?100 a week. At 27 he founded de Beers Mining Co., soon had control of practically all South Africa's diamond fields-90% of the world's diamonds. He entered the South African Parliament, and nine years later was Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. By bribery, intrigue, diplomacy, persuasion, force he worked to bring about a united South Africa. Like most men of action a mixture of cynic and sentimentalist, he made no bones of his tricky actions but could not bear to have his ambition thought sordid...