Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rome of a bright spring morning. A vast, good-humored mob filled St. Peter's Square, craned necks toward the Arch of Bells. Suddenly the cheers exploded. Through the Arch of Bells into the square came Pope Pius XII, in gold-embroidered cape, followed by a brilliantly robed procession. The Pope climbed into a glistening, open-topped convertible sedan. Into nine other limousines clambered his retinue. By a devious four-mile route across Rome, past kneeling and cheering thousands, past the packed stands in the Via dell' Impero, the Pope's motorcade wound its slow...
From Cuba to Cape Breton lies the most famed game-fishing lane in the world. Once the pastime of sophisticated sportsmen, the great, crazily unpredictable and usually expensive sport of game fishing has become popular in the past five years among more ordinary summer vacationists. Last week, reverently as turn-of-the-century maidens perennially inspecting their hope chests, thousands of winter-weary U. S. men & women took out their dusty fishing kits, added a few newfangled gadgets, collected roadmaps for their annual summer fishing trip...
...spectacular leaps when hooked, 3) endurance to make long and repeated surface runs. Most popular with Atlantic anglers is the weak-mouthed weakfish (world's record: 17 Ibs. 3 oz.), least sporty of game fish. From the first of May, when the annual weakfish run starts off Cape Hatteras, they attract thousands of anglers along the saltwater bays, inlets and tidal rivers from Delaware to Long Island. Best weak, fishing spot is Peconic Bay on eastern Long Island where, during June, boats will be as numerous as canoes on a summer-camp lake...
...cloud with hits that puffed white against it. Another day, and on the second anniversary of Their Majesties' coronation, the cruisers fired a 21-gun salute, and George issued the welcome order to "splice the main brace" (extra grog for all hands). Three hundred and fifty miles off Cape Race, 1,350 miles from Quebec, the Empress' experienced crew got a whiff of the dank, penetrating "smell of icebergs." Soon the bergs showed up, scant hundreds of yards off the Empress' bows. A cold fog settled down over the liner. The escort cruisers anxiously nosed ahead...
Died. Mrs. George Anthony Reginald Williams, 43, the former Lady (Sophie) Mary Heath, famed flier (first woman commercial pilot, first woman to loop the loop, first woman to fly solo London-Cape-town) ; of a broken head after a fall down the steps of a double-deck bus; in London...