Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Short, tight-mouthed, efficient as a gyrocompass and untiring as the Mediterranean sun, Sir Andrew spent most of his years on the way up aboard destroyers, mostly in the Mediterranean. He learned some unhappy lessons off Cape Helles during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915. He is known as a grim disciplinarian and a bear for work. He has such a loud voice for commands that his underlings say that inter-ship signals in battle are just a waste of effort; and he is such an expert navigator that his crews say he could cut an egg in half with...
...Civil War began. Since then Carmen Amaya has toured all Latin America, made movies and pots of money. Like most gypsies, she lets the money slip, but she has invested a lot in diamonds and furs. Easygoing, she wears a dirty bathrobe about the house, with a silver fox cape to top it off. Her English thus far is " 'ello," "goo' night," "hokay," t'ank you." She has no aspirations towards formal Spanish dancing, says (in Spanish): "If I feel like jumping, I jump. If I feel like sitting, I sit." All Carmen Amaya really wants...
...team is composed of five former college basketball players, all of whom have now turned professional, and in their debut on the Cape recently they startled the usually stolid citizenry by blitzkrieging a local five by the score of 109 to 47. "Tonight they hope to return to the scene of their former triumph when they tackle the 208th Division of Camp Edwards in the Barnstable High School Auditorium. Since the soldiers have among their number several first rate hoopmen, a spirited battle seems in prospect...
...Last summer, while she was playing at the Cape Playhouse at Dennis, Mass., she married tall, dignified Theatrical Producer Richard Stoddard Aldrich, 38, son of a late Hood Rubber executive' who headed the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1924. A short time after the wedding Gertie got a congratulatory cable from England...
...picture and an old-fashioned travelogue, it was to have a central story (man's struggle against Arctic cold and hunger), a cast of characters (Nanook and his family). He persuaded John Revillon and Thierry Mallet, of the famed fur-trading Revillon Freres, to back an expedition to Cape Dufferin on the northeast coast of Hudson...