Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DRUM?Lynd Ward?Cape & Smith...
...Manhattan. A Dutchman struggling against storm and wind to round the Cape of Good Hope once swore that he would make it if he had to keep sailing until the Day of Judgment. The Devil overheard him, condemned him to just such a fate unless he could find a woman who would love him faithfully. There after every seventh year the Dutchman was permitted to go ashore to hunt a liberator. But the rest of the time he wearily sailed the seas until all the Norseland came to know of the white-faced wanderer and his phantom ship with...
Last week, Sidney Franklin, Brooklyn matador, home from Spain for a vaudeville engagement (see p. 18), told a New York Evening Post newsman that bulls do not go berserk when they see red. Said he, "That is nonsense. . . . The bull charges a moving object. . . . The matador uses a red cape for esthetic reasons-it will not show bloodstains...
...principal reasons why the congress will meet here is because on August 31, 1932, there will be a total eclipse of the sun, visible in New England. The path of the totality will start near the Hudson Bay, curve down through New Hampshire and Maine and then go over Cape Cod disappearing a few hundred miles off shore in the Atlantic...
Amateur yachtsmen seldom get excited about races between the fishing schooners of the Grand Banks. They feel that fishermen ignore the finer points of yachting. Furious brawls, after races off Gloucester and Cape Cod, have resulted from the claim that one boat fouled another. The fishermen sail according: to fishing rather than sporting tradition. They crowd sail on their boats at all times, not realizing that under certain conditions a boat carrying less sail will move faster. In one race with the Canadian champion, the U. S. competitor came in first because one of its topsails blew away...