Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...anxious to paint his portrait and gain fame and pelf thereby. Recently Artist Richard Jack, R. A., failed to persuade His Majesty to grant a sitting, but was graciously allowed the loan of a sword, a field marshal's uniform on which were pinned many orders, and a cape-all indisputably fresh from the royal wardrobe. Thus encouraged, Artist Jack slapped these accoutrements upon canvas in an attitude "regally erect," which was reported to "make the King seem unusually tall and commanding." Pleased, His Majesty inspected it last week, deigned to sit for his then wanting head...
...second extra set, larger than any, for the Josephine, as well as a small set for her tail; after explaining into a microphone for the radio public how he intends to visit the North Pole by flying in 400-mile stages from Spitzbergen with an intermediate base on Cape Morris Jessup. Greenland, taking with him only one flight companion, Chief Petty Officer Floyd Bennett, but having at call by radio in Kings Bay a reserve plane (Curtiss Oriole) manned by fellow service flyers; after reading a great many flattering, tender, hopeful, encouraging farewell messages (doubtless including one from his brother...
...tour was conducted in January and February of this year and was arranged for 157 South African students. The itinerary included visits to a number of European countries with visits to Germany and Switzerland optional. The cost of the entire trip for each person, including the ocean trip from Cape Town and back, was slightly over...
...crew by dumb show. He smokes 50 cigars daily, sits in the saloon while two women alternately read to him. Satiated, he calls for his checkerboard. He cruises a course mapped to keep the Ohio in balmy climes. Last week he was forced to go ashore at Cape Town while the Ohio was dry-docked." - ED. Anti-Tobacco...
...Author. Sarah Gertrude Millin has always lived in South Africa. She is the Jewish wife of a Johannesburg barrister. She writes for South African papers, including the Cape Times, whose literary column is by her; also for John Middleton Hurry's very earnest and intelligent Adelphi, in London. The Jordans was her first widely read work. Last year, God's Stepchildren, a study in miscegenation worked out like an inexorable chapter from the Old Testament, was very highly praised. Sequel...