Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategically placed sequins, riding what might or might not have been an 18th century camel. Another girl came as a white rabbit, with neither explanation nor apology. Host Cuevas himself received his guests as a timeless "God of Nature" in cloth of gold, a scarlet cape and a headdress of gilded grapes and ostrich plumes in the full beam of a glaring spotlight. "I can't see you; oh, this light is terrible," he cried to one couple as his own limelight blinded him. "You look completely black to me." The couple whispered an explanation : they were dressed...
...coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers evidently made an impression on the crusty old doctor of divinity who attended as South Africa's representative. Back in Cape Town last week, 79-year-old Prime Minister Daniel Malan, D.D., surprised the House of Parliament with this flat statement: "The Commonwealth gives us the greatest freedom we could wish for . . ." He even cited India's example to prove that South Africa could become a republic (as his Boer Nationalists insist) without leaving the Commonwealth...
...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, became engaged to sultry Socialite Jacqueline Bouvier, 23, onetime Washington Times-Herald Inquiring Photographer. Two days later, caught in a Manhattan traffic jam, Jacqueline kept Jack waiting until the last nervous second before they took off for a Cape Cod weekend. Said the nonchalant young Senator to reporters: "This is the first of many, I guess, as you married men must know...
...Much," said Ridgway, "has been done." For example: 1) from the North Cape to the Caucasus, Allied forces are now controlled by one integrated command; 2) existing land forces could probably ward off a surprise onslaught by the 22 Russian field divisions on permanent station in East Germany; 3) 60 of the scheduled 125 Allied airfields are usable in an emergency; 4) atomic warfare training for key NATO officers is under...
Ships to Race. The time is the turn of the century. The ships are three- and four-masted craft, fighting the. losing battle of sail against steam as they race with their cargoes of grain and nitrates out of Australia, Chile and San Francisco, round Cape Horn to their French home ports. From these ports come the homeless, hard-bitten men who man them-a surly lot, mostly shanghaied aboard by brothel-keepers to whom the poor fellows have lost every franc. As vicious as any man caught in this vicious cycle is Common Seaman Rolland, who is lugged aboard...