Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Apparently Mr. Coolidge did not know and was not informed about these things. . . . Anyhow, he is the first President to review the American Navy in a yachting cap and a business suit-but that is what he wore. Also he is the first President who left the bridge after 20 minutes of the review and, retiring to the stern of his boat, there had his picture taken and reclined for the rest of the two hours on a couch from which he could neither see nor be seen by the battleships as they passed the Mayflower. . . . Naval circles in Washington...
...every head but one rested a flat-topped, tasseled cap; all but one pair of legs marched swathed in the folds of the academic gown. The lone exception was Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who, with silk hat, striped trousers, frock coat and pale blue, pearl-studded tie headed the parade.* He was to deliver the Commencement Address to the 1927 Class of Washington University...
Tillie the Toiler (Marion Davies, Matt Moore). According to Subtitle-Writer Ralph H. Spence, Tillie is the sort who wears two pairs of garters, "one to hold up her stockings and one to hold up traffic." The minx sets her cap for her wealthy employer, Pennington Fish. To land him she toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober...
...brief week, the Senior sits high with the world at his feet: With the Baccalaureate Service tomorrow in Appleton Chapel opens a round of ceremonies, gay and solemn alike, calculated to send the graduate out from the University with a memory of a short hour of triumph to cap the remembrances of four years of struggles as an undergraduate...
...Offshore winds tugged at the four-starred naval cap clamped firmly on the President's head. Past the presidential yacht Mayflower moved the United States Fleet?98 ships of war, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes commanding. From the ships came the President's salute (21 guns), from the Mayflower the signal "Well Done"?the navy's formula of highest praise. U. S. President for some four years, President Coolidge had held his first naval review...