Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor on the stage was a Metropolitan debutant. Italy's Basso Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (TIME, Oct. 15, 1951), who drew the meaty role of Mephistopheles. Elegantly brandishing his black sword-cane, he swaggered and leered his satanic way about the stage, and when he flourished his red satin cape, the villagers hit the floor like a wheatfield in a high wind...
...Balanced Scale. In Cape Town, South Africa, playing hooky from school, 13-year-old Peter Schroder rescued a marooned kitten from a 60-ft. pine tree, got 1) a $1.50 reward from the grateful owner, 2) a medal from the Animal Welfare Society, 3) a sound thrashing from his headmaster, who said: "Peter is a hero, but if he plays truant, he must also take his medicine...
...State Secret, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. swaps his sword for a stethoscope and his cape for a trenchcoat, but the picture lacks none of the swashbuckling verve of his earlier efforts. Without benefit of a princess, a stolen treasure, or a single duel, the old master manages to find in the Twentieth Century all the components of absorbing high adventure...
...tests cover everything from trape-zoids to Tom Paine, from spelling (acqui-esence, acquiescence, aquiescence, acqui-esance) to literature ("What Joseph Lincoln did for Cape Cod, Sarah Orne Jewett did for 1) Florida, 2) Maine, 3) Oregon, 4) Michigan"). But just knowing the usual subjects is far from enough. To test their intelligence, the Point also presents candidates with a whole new bogus language that changes from year to year...
Then Edwards fell in love with an actress, and just when Misia was feeling most deeply forsaken, Jose Maria Sert, the Spanish painter, walked into her apartment wearing a sombrero and Spanish cape. Before leaving, he asked her to go to Rome with him for a few weeks. Amused, irritated and taken aback, she heard herself say she would be delighted. With Sert she "knew what it was to have a dazzled heart," and for the first time had the "calm and frightening feeling of something final...