Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reluctant to hide her light under a bushel of style traditions, trim-bodied Cinemactress Paulette Goddard tried to set a new Hollywood style by turning up for a formal dinner date in "evening shorts." They were formalized by sequins and a decorous cape...
...children were of many different groups: "English, Afrikander [native Dutch or Huguenot], Jewish, Bantu, Cape Colored, Indian and Chinese." They had to put a ten-pound shot, run 100 and 600 yards, at any pace they pleased. After each child finished, the doctors made careful notes on how tired he was. Amazing was the finding: all racial groups of the same age had the same endurance. Said the doctors: "No more impressive evidence for the basic equality of man has ever been adduced...
This speech is in intent a declaration of war, and no defensive war at that. If the American people were determined that the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, Dakar, etc., are vital to the defense of our shores, the President would not have needed to stress the point so strongly. The fact is that at least a large minority of Americans do not agree, and will keep on saying so with all the force they command. They do not doubt our ability to survive; they have felt all along that aid to England is a sensible policy dictated...
...harbor of Freetown, which is Britain's best between Cape Town and home, lies on the south side of the River Rokell's estuary, five miles from the open sea, landlocked by forest-smothered, humidity-choked countryside. It is a huge roadstead, capable of mooring the largest fleets. It has a seaplane landing as well as facilities for watering, coaling and minor repairs. For the last few weeks its ample anchorage has been taxed by a constantly shifting flotilla of about 100 merchant ships of all pro-British registries...
World War II had cut into the pilgrim business, and the Zamzam was signed over to foreign trade. Last March she set out from eastern U.S. ports for Alexandria, by the long route to South America and around the Cape of Good Hope. "Although Egypt is not at war," said the Zamzam's Captain William Gray Smith, before sailing from Jersey City, "she is considered a nonbelligerent ally of England and we could not take any chances...