Word: capes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long way to Northern Rhodesia, any way you go. South Africa bumps northward from the Cape, in a succession of plateaus separated by rivers, until it drops into the Congo basin. Beyond Cape Town, beyond the veldt of the Boers, beyond Bechuanaland and the hinterland of Cecil Rhodes's dreams, nearly 2,000 mi. by railroad from the cape, is Northern Rhodesia, a high, flat, subtropical savannah, full of elephants, roan antelope and a million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope...
...Cape Cod summer home of James Henry Rand Jr., wealthy president of Remington Rand Inc., late one evening, marched a grim and agitated agent of the Massachusetts State Income Tax Department. The agent seized 75-year-old James Henry Rand Sr. retired maker of card-index systems, hustled him off to the Barnstable town lockup. There Oldster Rand was charged with dodging Massachusetts income taxes of $35,000 in 1928-29-30. Reason for the sudden arrest, it turned out, was that the tax-collectors feared Mr. Rand might make a getaway on his son's yacht. Disgruntled Mr. Rand...
...famed socialite, Lord Hyde was married three years ago before the High Altar of Westminster Abbey, a privilege generally reserved for royalty. The Bishop of Kimberley said services for him on the railway platform, a special train carried his body to Cape Town en route to Britain...
...This stunt can also be worked by a ballyhoo man dressed in cape and black hood...
...general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle with Lehmann. But his audience remembered too well the cunning of Scotti, the insinuating grace, the evil that seemed to lurk even in the folds of his cape...