Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rude and tempestuous was Nature's welcome to the first permanent English settlers who, under Captain Christopher Newport, landed in 1607 at Cape Henry, Va. No less rude and tempestuous was the welcome President Hoover got last week when he visited the same spot at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay to help commemorate the 324th anniversary of that historic event...
President Hoover went down from Washington overnight aboard the S. S. Sequoia, a small Department of Commerce inspection boat. Landing near Norfolk, he went on out to the windswept dunes at the cape. There were gathered 10,000 people, including Governor Pollard of Virginia and Episcopal Bishop Arthur C. Thomson. Great black clouds whipped by a strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop...
...MAGNET?Maxim Gorki?Cape & Smith...
Among the first to leave was William Hale Thompson. A truck removed his office furniture, including twelve telephones. Then he took a party of 70 not-too-happy friends off on a chartered steam packet Cape Girardeau for a cruise down the Mississippi River...
...Emilio Scala, the proprietor of a coffee shop in London, who had Grakle's ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Another was Clayton C. Woods, the woodwork inspector at Fisher Body's Shops in Buffalo, N. Y. The third was George P. Dyamond, who runs a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa and who, because he had been unable to sell a half interest in his ticket on Annandale...