Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London Indian. Of the 104 passengers on the Mayflower when she rounded the hook of Cape Cod and dropped anchor in Provincetown harbor, none knew anything about farming or fishing. Forty-one were members of the Separatist sect, which had fled to Holland from Scrooby England, a dozen years before. Another 40 were good Anglican churchgoers, shopkeepers and clerks from London and Southwestern England, who had jumped at the chance offered them by the expedition's London backers to pick up a fortune in the new world. The remaining 23, like cooper John Alden, were bonded workmen or indentured...
That night, Halsey made yet another defiant gesture: covered by destroyers, U.S. light cruisers steamed up and bombarded coastal installations around Cape Nojima, at the mouth of Tokyo Bay. One big explosion was seen; the rest was shrouded in the soup...
...road work for three-week stretches in louse-infested clothes, to permit studies which played a part in the development of DDT, the powder which saved bombed Naples from a typhus epidemic (TIME, Jan. 10, June 12, 1944). Five other C.O.s spent days on a life raft off Cape Cod, to determine, among other things, the effects of drinking sea water under shipwreck conditions...
...death of Francisco Pizarro is told in the story that gives The Knights of the Cape its name. Peru's Ricardo Palma, who called his stories Tradiciones Peruanas was a tradition and a classic himself before he died in 1919 at the age of 86. He had fought against the Spanish at Callao and against the Chileans at Miraflores. He was once editor of the great Prensa in Buenos Aires, and returned to Lima to rebuild the National Library which the Chileans had pillaged...
...stories in The Knights of the Cape picture heroes, generals, saints, friars, noblemen and noblewomen, devils and goblins. Only the devils and goblins really work at their trades. The heroes are always engaged in rascality, the generals swindle the tradesmen, the friars gorge themselves, the saints drive hard bargains in horseflesh, the nobility tomcats around Lima's midnight streets...