Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover appointed John Gerrit Diekema of Holland, Mich., to succeed Richard Montgomery Tobin, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Holland. Minister Diekema, fluent Dutch-speaker, is another feather in the cap of the University of Michigan...
...impressive occasion. At the theatre, garbed in a belted shooting jacket which he said had been made in 1904 and in what one observer called "an indescribably peaked Tartar cap," Shaw greeted his guests with gusto and much pleased tugging at his flaring, white beard. He left, however, before the final curtain...
...grizzled old man of 71 walked slowly down the steps of Charlestown (Mass.) State Prison, looking neither right nor left at staring crowds. He wore a grey baggy suit, a flannel shirt, a soft cap, carried a small paper package. His face was set in hard, unhappy lines. He spoke to no one, as he climbed into a Ford sedan, cringed down in its back seat. The car carried him out of the prison yard for the first time in 43 years...
...worn. . . the cap and bells of the city jester . . . Jimmy the jester...
...Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window of the enginecab is Lon Chaney's. Coincidence turns the wheels. The engineer has two sons. One of them is killed. Lon Chaney, driving the train carrying the body to Chicago, gets into a fight with his other son, who happens...