Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have sung the important baritone rôle of Rigoletto, could not be found on the day of the opera. Another baritone, named to sing in his place, was taken ill shortly before the curtain rose. A third baritone finally went on stage in Rigoletto's cap and bells...
...diplomatic feelers and without the latter a nation may only too easily make itself ridiculous. If the proposal should be accepted and the hazards of the rum-runner increased by nine miles of water, the prohibitionists would be justified in claiming a large feather for their cap...
...entire Chamber (not excepting Bombacci's friends) broke into uncontrollable laughter at this point; for Bombacci some months before had hidden in the coal cellar of a Bologna restaurant wearing a chef's cap, to escape the clutches of Fascismo. The episode ended here...
...simply baffled by the way things were turning out. He offered to marry Bee, but she wouldn't accept?she wasn't asking for charity. He knew he ought to be devoted to Cecil?but he just didn't feel that way. The child estranged them. To cap the climax, he found himself arrested and convicted for theft?out on the rock-pile making big ones into little ones. Life had knocked him out in the first round...
Juniors in cap and gown always attract the attention of their classmates and of students from colleges where four years of study is the minimum required for a degree. Three year graduates, scorning the ways of the ordinary mortal and completing in three years what takes others four, make up an unusually large proportion of the graduating body at Harvard...