Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cried the official Turkish newspaper Milliet last week, and its editor declared himself "inflamed with consuming anguish at the departure of our Great Friend." What has Mark Lambert Bristol, hard-swearing quarterdeck-man, done to draw such a halo of fulsome Turkish affection around his trim Admiral's cap...
...Insull's plan was quite simple. The new opera site abuts on broad Wacker Drive, on Market between Washington and Madison streets. It is a convenient neighborhood for business offices and is increasing rapidly in beauty. Simply surround and cap your opera auditorium and dressing-rooms with 22 stories of offices priced in proportion to the cultivated air of the building, and the rents from brokers, lawyers, insurance men, advertising agents, etc. will help audiences pay for expensive scenery, costumes, batons, temperaments, vocal chords...
...find had been a dynamite cap...
...years older than Jefferies and hadn't been fighting for four years. It was a 25 round bout. Up to the twenty-third round I had the edge on him and it was in that round that he knocked me out. It was quite a feather in my cap to be able to come back and fight 28 rounds after a long...
Impudent, a Communist mail carrier did not doff his cap one morning last week in the presence of the Herr Direktor of the Vienna Post Office. Irate, the Herr Direktor bellowed, gave this minion a thoroughgoing rebuke...