Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hung from each Cap, and wanton'd in the Wind...
...Mexico City, Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on the railroad; stuck all the feathers in his cap and called it a day. The feathers were Mexico's national tennis titles. Those who took turns being Yankee Doodle: Vincent Richards, singles; Vincent Richards and Ray Casey, doubles; Mary K. Browne, singles; Charlotte Hosmer and one Miss Tennant, doubles. Richards was also Yankee Doodle in the 1923 Mexican singles...
...Thomas?a debonair six-foot shape in blue serge, with crisp yachting cap tilted to starboard?waved his hand. Chatting with pressmen, he stroked his goatee?a preposterous tuft no bigger than a barnacle?responded wittily to their sallies, screwing up his eyes when the sun shone against his face?a very brown face, drawn taut with the whip of sea-salt. "What good is the Cup to America when you have nothing to put in it?" asked he. "I understand the only thing you have left to put in it would burn the bottom...
...certain Exhibition day the audience was assembled. "When the square cap, and flowing robes of Jared Sparks were seen in the distance, the soul-inspiring 'Kuffer' was struck up immediately causing the worthy gentleman to start in a run for the pulpit. For the same performance we received the approval of Professor Peirce and Child. On the other hand we were damned by the New York Herald, from whom censure is an honor, and praise a blot...
...futility of present foreign policy to contribute toward world peace. Unofficially America is responsible for the Geneva protocol to outlaw war. Professor James T. Shotwell of Columbia University fathered the ideas incorporated in the document. And the world's applause of the plan apparently adds another feather to the cap of unofficial cooperation. In the middle of his graceful bow of acknowledgement, however, the administration receives a rude check. The experts at Geneva have conclude that all the constructive work of the forty-eight states which have signed the protocol is in vain, so long as the United States stays...