Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manolete was not to be the only star. Mexico's own Silverio Perez took his bull with almost equal skill, got as great an ovation. Determined to outdo Silverio, the visitor from Spain returned to the ring. When Manolete tried a lance (pass with the cape), the bull evaded the cape, drove a horn deep into the Spaniard's left thigh...
...Union of South Africa, leaning toward the U.S. rather than the British pattern, announced that it would experiment with radio advertising. Now dividing its air time between non-commercial "A" and "B" programs-one in English, the other in Afrikaans-the dominion will build new transmitters in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth for a new "C" network open to advertisers. The network hopes to combine BBC's well-tailored decorum with American money-making methods, will carefully consider the sponsor's product before signing a contract. Probable taboos: laxative ads, political blurbs, singing commercials...
...Cape, Strut & Whiskers. Then came Paris. The Idahoan with the glittering eye and the positive manner ranged magnificently from salon to bordello, flaunting his cape and stick and Byronic collars, spitting critical fire, pinching the ladies and wagging his fierce red whiskers. He grew as famous as his neighbors, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. By the time he was 40 he had written 31 books. The stream of poetry, prose and French and Chinese translations swelled to a torrent. Then, the early '30s, Ezra Pound stepped abruptly out of his field...
Last week, the reluctant native, Ezra Pound, 60, was home to stay. The positive manner was gone with the cape and stick; his eyes were rheumy, his beard wilted. His lawyer in the capital's U.S. District Court, where he stood indicted on 19 counts of treason, said senility had made him unfit for trial, and asked that he be placed under psychiatric observation...
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz got a special Navy Day bow from the Daughters and Sons of Hawaiian Warriors, who made him a High Chief of Hawaii (first since Franklin Roosevelt, in 1934) and gave him the robe of royalty-a cape of yellow, red, and green mamo, oo, and iiwi feathers. In return for his chief's rating, the Admiral bravely chugged through a thank-you paragraph of Hawaiian...