Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile he makes his headquarters in Morgan Hall with an arduous daily routine punctuated by cross-country telephone conversations and interviews with visiting firemen. He mixes a wicked martini (olive included) evenings 'at home.' Weekends with his wife Both he points his Cadillae toward Osterville on the Cape. There in a twelve-room hideaway (one forthcoming complete with tennis court will overlook the sea) he can unbend briefly. Dean David likes gardening: behind the custom-tailored exterior and million-dollar glad-hand he is fundamentally informal and original-thinking. "He works with stuffed shirts very well indeed," Associate Dean Stanley...
...while she sipped a drink. Its picture of her was hastily identified as "A Mrs. Throckmorton (she's not in the Blue Book, by the way)." A day later it told more about her: she was not just any old Mrs. Throckmorton, but the Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton of Cape Cod and the nightclubs, who was "reliably reported to carry $4,000 in her handbag at all times-plus a gat in good working order. She . . . once appeared in a nightclub in a chenille bedspread...
...Rolls-Royce, reported the Post, and left in her Cadillac, basking in a sunburst of flashbulbs. When photographers bawled at her to count her diamond bracelets (she had made wonderful copy last year by losing one), she sweetly obliged. Said class-conscious PM: "She had on a chinchilla cape not worth a penny more than...
Fifty miles from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island and twice as far from Newfoundland, the islands have passed from the French to Newfoundland to Quebeo. They were one of the last outposts of feudalism in the western world: George III gave them to Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin for services to the Crown, and for a century they paid tribute to Coffin's heirs...
...outfit, a jacket with pencil-slim skirt by M-G-M Designer Irene, was so tight that the hobbled model could not walk down the stairs in it. A complicated "Toga for Travel," by Bonnie Cashin, consisted of a black dress under an enormous brown knee-length cape, set off by a matching sun helmet and candy-striped spats. Another cold weather number was a white fleece overcoat, by Elois Jenssen, electrically heated by batteries carried in two side pockets (with an extension cord that could be plugged in on planes or trains...