Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Faithful. In Cape Town, South Africa, a farmer turned his 15-year-old car in on a shiny new model, wrecked it the next day in a collision with the old auto and its new driver...
...well-publicized exhibition in 1933, Sterne spent more & more time in the U.S. He painted a series of murals for the Department of Justice building in Washington, found himself represented in 16 U.S. museums, including Manhattan's Metropolitan, and the owner of a summer cottage on Cape Cod and a house in suburban Mount Kisco...
...Another remembered distinctly that it had something to do with Massachusetts schoolchildren. Finally the truth emerged: the rock was to be donated to U.N. by the World Friendship Council (an organization devoted to amity of moppets everywhere). The Council in turn got the rock from Charles Henry Davis, a Cape Cod millionaire and idea man, last heard of when he proposed that an 80-ft. statue of Winston Churchill, with a beacon in the form of a lighted cigar, be erected at Dover (TIME, July 29). When Donor Davis heard of the mixed reception awaiting his rock in New York...
...country signs such as "Gourock Rope and Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House. Just around the corner there is a sailor's club where last season an average of 300 sailors a night were quartered...
...American Day celebration in Washington. ". . . By every rule of righteousness [Canada] is eligible to this association. ... I would welcome the final and total New World unity which will be nobly dramatized when the 22nd chair is filled and our continental brotherhood is complete from the Arctic Circle to Cape Horn...