Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire-born Constance Warren (Vassar '04) has the manner and bearing of Eleanor Roosevelt : gracious, tall, long-legged, she strides smiling about her small, garden-like campus, on rainy days wears a long military cape. Famed is her habit of drowsing on the platform during lectures by visiting bigwigs. In her book last week President Warren sounded off in brisk, layman's language. Some Warrenisms...
Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her royal father by becoming the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape, P. & O. Co. shipping tycoon, making something like a royal alliance, considering the importance of P. & O. in the Indies. But Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandster Harry Roy. At her marriage the Roy Jazz Band played the leader's original composition Sarawaki as a wedding march. Nancy Valerie outraged her father's sensibilities even more by marrying Wrestler Bob Gregory. Still worse, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory promptly journeyed to Hollywood, where the by-now publicity-conscious...
...South Africa's former Prime Minister and present Opposition Leader General J. B. M. Hertzog, who plugs for independence from Britain and who is an even bitterer rival of Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts than Mitchell Hepburn is of Mackenzie King, introduced a motion before the Legislature in Cape Town: "Resolved, That this House is of the opinion that the time has come for the state of war against Germany to be ended and for peace to be restored." Voting on the resolution was postponed until this week, but it was considered doomed to certain defeat...
...premiere of The Notorious Elinor Lee gave Harlem its first taste of a Hollywood first night with gold-engraved invitations, floodlights, a carpeted sidewalk, a microphone, press, police, gaping throngs and Colonel Julian as master of ceremonies in full dress, top hat, white silk gloves and a flowing Inverness cape...
...what he calls "prescriptioneering" and a healthy sense of the vastness -historical, geographical and human-of his Latin American subject matter. He has a knack for bringing things home; e. g. (of the wonderful Spanish conquest): "It was as if the North American land mass had been explored from Cape Nome to Florida, the Rockies and the Appalachians prospected, the Mississippi and the Columbia river systems mapped, Klondike and California gold discovered, and Denver, Seattle, Chicago, Atlanta and every other American city today above a hundred thousand population founded within 50 years after Jamestown...