Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...husband. And the details of the wedding cake were all set. It would be only a four-layer austerity affair, with a few decorative accents (Elizabeth's and Philip's crests, small reproductions of Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Balmoral; little tableaux; a battle scene at Cape Matapan, some musical emblems, Cupid holding the bride's and groom's initials, the crest of the Royal Navy, the badges of the ATS and the Girl Guides, a representation of H.M.S. Valiant, the badges of Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India and Pakistan...
Tall and red-faced, George Belcher was one of the sights of London. For daytime wear, Artist Belcher chose the tweediest of hunting tweeds or else a funereal black cape and high satin stock. At night he preferred Victorian dinner jackets, lace cuffs, and ruffles. Thus attired, he spent half a century stalking likely subjects through London's foggy streets and second-best bar parlors. All his models, he liked to boast, were amateurs, "taken from life...
Emma, bred off the Cape Verde Islands, was first reported by ships on Sept. 11. She was then 800 miles east of the Antilles and traveling toward the U.S. at the rate of 20 m.p.h. From then on, diligent U.S. hurricane-hunters kept track of her every movement...
When all the guests had gone, Joe went back to the kitchen and autographed the aprons of the waitresses and dishwashers, then drove off for his summer home in Sagamore on Cape Cod. Other guests drove back into Fall River. Opposite the City Hall, the sign outside Granite Block Spa now said with bare coherence: "Joe Martin...
...party of fishermen had camped in the Red River country near Cape Breton Highlands National Park. When they moved out, they committed the worst crime in the woodsman's book: they failed to put out their fire. From its embers sprang a blaze that soon fired the summer-dry brush nearby. Volunteers came running and quickly had the burning brush under control-or so they thought until a rising wind undid their work. Soon a white mushroom of smoke hung over Cape Breton's heartland...