Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside the old white doorway the house had been arranged the way F.D.R. had left it for the last time. The clocks were stopped. His clothes, including the navy cape he wore at Yalta, still hung in the closet; his hat & coat were still by the hall door. Odd paraphernalia-bird collections, pictures, a cribbage board-were in their accustomed places. On the table near the mahogany bed in his old room were scattered mysteries and year-old newspapers and magazines.* In his library with the lived-in look were the maps on which he had followed the war-which...
Parliamentary Language. In Cape Town, South Africa, Member of Parliament Louis Bosnian lost his temper, called M.P. Johannes Serfontein "a concentrated mass of protoplasmic nitrogenous venom...
Paroled in 1941, he had tried his hand at running a Cape Cod farm, worked himself up to a vice president's assistant in a fireworks factory, then got interested in Ramie when he moved to Florida. Last week the stock, issued at $2.87½, was quoted at $4.50. Paper profit to Whitney: $75,000. But Whitney does not plan to sell, lest he appear to be dabbling in securities. (Under his parole he must keep away from Wall Street, liquor, firearms, convicts.) And he thinks he has a good thing in Ramie...
Kuhn is co-chairman with Levin H. Camphell '48 of the Council Committee on the General Education Report. He had a major hand in the preparation of the Council report on tutorial released last month. During the war, Kuhn did research work at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape...
...Storm. After that, the tiny vessel sailed south to the 20th degree of latitude, headed west before the warm trade winds. For five weeks the women & children sunbathed on the deck, the men lounged, bare-armed, in the cockpit. Then, on Nov. 27, 60 miles off Cape Hatteras, the Erma ran into a freezing westerly gale. She was assailed by storm after storm. Sledging seas sent water spraying through her leaking cabin ports. Everything-clothes, shoes, blankets, bulkheads-grew wet with sea water. It was bitter cold...