Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Being unable to find even a trace of glamorous Gertrude [Dirty Gertie of Bizerte] in Bizerte, we extended our quest across the coast of North Africa from the tip of Cape Bon to Casablanca. Our ceaseless searching was finally rewarded at Sidi-Bel-Abbes, headquarters of the French Foreign Legion (in which Ronald Colman fought so many ferocious battles), when we came upon an alluring Arabian astride a motorcycle, who claimed to be the identical girl about whom the celebrated song was written...
...every ichthyologist knows, certain fish seem to possess an acutely developed weather sense: e.g., the loach, a species of carp (known in Germany as the "weather fish"), which becomes very lively when the barometer drops. From Cape Town last week came a whopping weather-fish story. Dr. Cecil von Bonde, South Africa's fisheries director, said he was testing a fish which seems able to forecast weather after death...
...fish is Ostracion diaphenus, known to South Africans as Seevarkie or "sea piggy," to the U.S. as the "trunk fish." This eight-inch creature is encased in a bony hide like armor. Dr. von Bonde became interested in it when he learned that Malay fishermen of Cape Town were in the habit of drying it and hanging it up with a string to determine the direction of coming gales. He hung a Seevarkie in a draft-free room in his aquarium. The nose of the dead, free-swinging fish pointed in a certain direction. Sure enough, winds began to blow...
...never rained more incessantly and gloomily than now. It had begun long before 9:50 a.m., when Franklin Roosevelt climbed out of his private railroad car at the Brooklyn Army base. He eased himself into the black Packard, ordered the canvas top drawn back, and threw the Navy cape about his broad shoulders...
...right field, Franklin Roosevelt's Packard drove up a ramp. The President dismounted, stepped a few feet to a speaker's stand. It began to pour. The President took off his grey fedora, let the Navy cape drop from his shoulders. Standing in the rain in his grey sack suit, he spoke for five minutes. Said he: Bob Wagner "deserves well of mankind...