Word: caped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Reynolds, Young England's 88-year-old author, still takes his dead-serious play seriously. He went to the opening of the revival, a sad, reedy figure in a great black cape, doddered up the stairs to his box holding on to both handrails, sat tense through the uproar, at the end bowed to the audience, thanked them. Asked in a BBC interview whether he wasn't angry at the way audiences treated Young England, he answered: "No. They're a little noisy . . . but they pay as much as 10 and 6 for seats, so they...
...ocean: how their boys were born, raised, and schooled there; and how one was born and died there and was shipped home for burial. He draws a picture of a breed of American which belied its appearance and tradition of provincial simplicity by entering ports from Java to Cape Horn during a life of ocean travel. The Captains Pennell qualify the early 19th century Maine navigator as one of the greatest cosmopolites in American history...
Announced by North Carolina's Governor Clyde R. Hoey as a member in the North Carolina Cape Hatteras National Seashore Commission was Doris Duke Cromwell. Commission's function: To acquire and turn over to the Federal Government the first exclusively national seashore...
Harvard's running attack is built on a firm foundation, and it will take more than an inspired bunch of Elis to prevent it from reaching pay dirt at least once. Bill Stack is a fine center, Bob Brooks and George Seabury are a pair of powerful tackles, and Cape Burnam and Jim Dern are capable guards, but the pressure on them Saturday is going to be terrific. Moreover, the reserves for these men have the doubtful distinction of not having worn themselves out against Princeton. They sat on the bench all afternoon and picked up valuable experience...
...citizens took out hunting licenses this year. Last week, with the first frost on the pumpkin, farmers took down their cherished fowling-pieces, bankers assembled their shiny shotguns and the army of U. S. hunters took to the woods, the marshes and the prairies for their fall shooting. From Cape Cod to the Sierras, most of them were after rabbits. Many had their minds on quail, pheasant, grouse, squirrel, deer. But the most excited U. S. gunners last week were the 1,000,000 duck shooters looking forward to their rendezvous with canvasbacks, mallards, black ducks, pintails...