Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here is a man who has determined to recreate the 1890's for us. In the face of a healthy vanity which is spreading slowly through contemporary writing, he poses in gold tights and a cap and bells. I admire his courage and his independence; but I'd rather laugh my belly-laughter with Rabelais than titter and snicker over Carl Van Vechten...
...finds that country very ignorant of Latin American affairs. He told of a letter he had received from the late Theodore Roosevelt: "Even the great Teddy addressed me as 'Senator,' when I've never been anything below the rank of a Cabinet Minister in my life, and, to cap the climax, my letter bore the destination of Buenos Aires, Brazil...
Twenty-one and two-tent's horse power in a test of 25 feet on a cinder-surfaced road were developed by Cap and King, a pair of 10-year-old Percheron geldings, in unique pulling tests at the Iowa State Fair, Des Moines. By means of a hydraulic wagon, or dynamometer, recently invented, the "tractive pull" of horse teams was determined with scientific accuracy for the first time. This is the kind of energy required to pull a varying weight out of a hole in the ground. The winning pair exerted a maximum tractive pull of 2,300 pounds...
...considered unfortunate that this death should have occurred after Mussolini destroyed the ancient municipal government of Italy's cap ital and substituted a Commissioner...
...book review section on Sundays, was cited by Industrial and Labor Information, published at Geneva, Switzerland, as an authority on labor matters in America. Industrial and Labor Information is the organ of the International Labor Office of the League of Nations. The Call stuck this feather in its phrygian cap...