Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secure such high duties as will strengthen it by increasing its revenue and enabling it to reduce internal taxes. If the Chinese can induce the conference to make preparations for the abolition of extraterritoriality (special privileges for foreigners resident in China) - that would be another feather in its cap...
Perhaps, the same day of the deposit of ratifications, he returned home and told his little girl, Maimi, and his two little boys, Dedie and Szeming, all about what was, after all, a considerable diplomatic feather in his cap...
Glimpses of the man: Sumner sitting under a blazing gas jet, swatting mosquitoes, helping arrange the term time-schedules of the college; Sumner, the inactive man, bicycling for his health, in uncharacteristic dowdy clothes, a cap pulled forward so that the bald cranium was revealed behind, pedalling at such a pace that his panting companion could not catch the scraps of conversation flung back at him; Sumner suddenly giving up smoking; asking for a picture of his physician's pretty child, looking at it constantly; pitching at one-o'-cat for his own boys, plunging through the blizzard...
...last touch of dressing is to choose a cap from the basket Josephine produces. M. France holds them out on his fist, one by one-papal bonnets, velvet skull-pieces, pagoda-caps, purple choir-wafers, mandarin hats. He fits on one in red-current Jouy cloth. The day begins...
Donald B. MacMillan, before sailing from Wiscasset, Me., a fortnight ago on his expedition to scout the polar cap with planes, had said that the very first thing he would do upon reaching his base at Etah, Greenland, would be to look for Amundsen. Arriving at Sydney, N. S., Mr. MacMillan heard from Amundsen via U. S. friends of the latter. "PLEASE CONVEY TO COMMANDER MACMILLAN OUR DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION. WISHING HIM A GLORIOUS JOURNEY...