Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cape Town, busy, crowded tavern of the seas, is plagued by young mulatto hoodlums who work in gangs and are called skollies. Between 1939 and 1942, operations of the skollies caused a notable increase of murders, assaults and rapes. Sometimes using colored girls for decoys, skollies waylay and rob British and American servicemen...
...Louis Cape Girardeau...
Died. Joseph C. (Crosby) Lincoln, 73, folksy, voluminous Cape Cod-born Cape Cod novelist; of a heart ailment; in Winter Park, Fla. Apple-cheeked son and grandson of sea captains, between his first novel (Cap'n Eri, 1904) and his last (The Bradshaws of Harniss, 1943), he usually summered on the Cape, wintered elsewhere, stub-penciled more than a book a year...
Woman of Talents. Stockholm society knows Mme. Kollontay as a slightly reconstructed aristocrat, an unusual linguist, a superb hostess. Her chinchilla cape makes women's eyes dilate; her little dinners make gourmets' eyes contract. As Soviet Ambassador to Sweden, where she has been stationed since 1930, she practices diplomacy with patience, wit and sagacity...
Noel Coward, on a morale-building tour of South Africa, nettled Afrikaner Nationalist Politico Paul Sauer by his imperial arrival in Cape Town. Egg-bald Sauer took the teakwood floor of the House of Assembly to fume: "The Governor of our sister state [Southern Rhodesia's Sir Evelyn Baring] traveled in a small coupe compartment but the crooner (a crooner is someone who sings as if something were wrong with his throat) came in a special coach. Have we lost our balance to such an extent that we make heroes of film actors and music-hall luminaries...