Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...League of Nations, the Locarno agreements or treaties guaranteeing neutrality." Mr. Kellogg now rather cleverly asks other powers whether they hold this view. Any reply which tends to indicate that the Powers are already committed to warlike sanctions in certain instances will be a feather in the Kellogg peace cap...
...Baldonnel were burdened with men, women, children, donkeys, cycles, motorcars. The Bremen was trundled from her hangar and poised for flight, away from a perfect dawn. Koehl and Fitzmaurice, devout Catholics, made their confessions and Father O'Riordan blessed the plane. Baron von Huenefeld, doffing his yachting cap, hung a silken flag of the old German Empire beside that of the Irish Free State. President and Mrs. William T. Cosgrave, the German Consul-General, the Chief of Staff of the Army and other officials, watched...
...flying off of a sprinkler cap on the top floor of University Hall, just under the roof, yesterday at about 2 o'clock caused the rapid appearance of three fire engines in the Yard. The only damage caused was from the water of the sprinkler...
...Hotel de la Couronne where their scores were marked by a coal black nigger boy called Henry Christophe. He listened to their conversation, his clever gentle eyes following their shots with melancholy speculation. "They talked of their Negro mistresses and of the comely mulatto whores who supplied Cap null with whatever its quiet, oppressive nights had of glamour, passion, and forgetful laughter. . . ." Henry Christophe never interrupted his masters...
...children. With unique ingenuity, he literally found money growing upon trees and gave Haiti a stable currency. He encouraged trade, organized an enormous commerce in sugar, corresponded as an equal with European kings and built a fortress, on the top of a hill near his capital of Cap Hai'tien. In 1820, when an army was marching on his palace, Henry Christophe sent his children away and shot himself dead, with a golden bullet...