Word: caps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years the Mayflower's planks were trod by U. S. Presidents. Taft was too large to use the marble bath presented to his athletic predecessor by Italy. Wilson had an elevator installed, Harding had it removed. Paper cigar-holder in mouth, yachting cap on head, Calvin Coolidge spent some of his happiest hours aboard her. Then Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower...
...damaged by a Rightist incendiary bomb. Today Alba's most valuable art treasures, such as Goya's portrait of a former Duchess of Alba and canvases by Rubens, Murillo, etc., are hung temporarily in the proletarian museum at Valencia. In Madrid, boys & girls in the peaked caps of the People's Army drill with rifles in Alba's park. A militiaman who insists on always wearing his peaked cap, even indoors, regularly uses Alba's electric waxer to keep the parquet floors of his Madrid palace gleaming. Communist guides lead groups of peasants and proletarians...
...Chan (Warner Oland). One day during production he stepped out to the water cooler, failed to return, leaving the Ringside case unsolved and Twentieth Century-Fox in danger of being $100,000 out of pocket. The availability of Mr. Moto saved the $100,000, added a feather to the cap of resourceful Producer Sol M. Wurtzel. Later found at his home, Hon. Chan pleaded illness, was granted a leave of absence...
...some $2,000,000 of its customers' funds to the Hyman partners; the floor partner of Thomas & Griffith, suspended from dealing on the Exchange for three years because the firm had over-hypothecated customers' funds, but not prosecuted because it was able to return the securities. To cap his list, Mr. McCall had a new case last week-Campagnoli & Co., a house dealing in over-the-counter securities for a highly reputable clientele. Last week suave President Hugo Campagnoli and two associates pleaded not guilty to 28 counts for practices almost identical with Richard Whitney's. When...
Pistol shrimp, which snap their claws with a report as loud as that of a cap pistol...