Word: capes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bigger than a grape. Whenever he sings in opera he has to build it up so that it can be seen over the footlights. But last week's nose he wanted to be particularly imposing. It was to be a nose to match trailing velvet robes, an ermine cape and a regal beehive headgear, a nose that would be worthy of the U. S. premiere of a Verdi opera (75 years after it was written) and of the biggest role that Tibbett has ever had at the Metropolitan...
Grim, far-sighted Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili. known from Leningrad to Cape Horn as Stalin, last week told Russia what to do for the next five years. Dictator Stalin may change his mind, but barring a national catastrophe or acts of God (in whom he does not believe; Russia will do as he says...
...Cairo-to-Cape...
Over a stone slab in the lonely Matopos Hills of Rhodesia a big Hercules biplane will fly this week. In its flight the plane will accomplish, in unforeseen manner, the dream of Cecil John Rhodes. It was his ambition to see a British railway "from the Cape to Cairo." The railway is not yet finished. But the 18-passenger ship which crosses Rhodes's rock-hewn grave is the first of a weekly service of Imperial Airways connecting not only Cape & Cairo, but both of them with London and India...
...Cape Town George Bernard Shaw...