Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pimpernel plus Superman. In his bearing and behavior, small (125 lbs.), stooped Mosby resembled a cross between the Scarlet Pimpernel and Superman. Against the enemy his unvarying rule was to do what was least expected of him. When he rode, his cape "was turned back always in a flow of scarlet. A curling ostrich plume extended over his shoulder from a gray felt hat, and at each side hung a large Colt revolver, suspended in holsters well studded with brass." He was always kind to women & children...
...selections from Latin-American history and fiction of the past 100 years. It tells about Latin America from the 16th Century to the present, is filled with heroes and villains from Pizarro to Pancho Villa, is set in cities, plains and jungles from the Caribbean to Cape Horn...
...hundred and one degree heat which has driven most Bostonians to Maine, to the Cape, or just to any cool place on weekends has also terminated almost all "live" jam sessions for the summer. However, the appearance of two new excellent jazz programs on the radio has done much to fill this void. Wednesday evenings at 7:30 o'clock, Cain's "Cain Is Able" pay the keep for half an hour over WMEX devoted to Louie, Bix, NORK, as well as moderns such as Hodes, Ed Hall, and Lester Young. And every evening except Sunday Warren Saunders produces "Jump...
While Cook was highballing his way to New York, researchers here in our editorial offices were busy digging out background material on the First Marine Division-how it fought at Tulagi and Gavutu and Koli Point, at Tenaru and Matanikau and Cape Esperance (there were pages of these background facts, but they had to be told in nine published lines...
London's weighty Economist took the same line: "In British eyes, American policy in Argentina is suspected of being moved ... by the desire to extend the influence of Washington from the northern half of South America to Cape Horn...