Word: caps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...polls there would be rather better than a bare majority of votes for installing an Austrian Nazi Cabinet which in turn would merge Austria with Germany. Given last week this situation of pent-up Austrian politics, given Herr Hitler's need of a spectacular success to cap his crackdown on the German Army fortnight ago, and given Herr von Ribbentrop's reputation for sticking at nothing, only one thing more was needed to make Adam's apples bob in Austrian throats. Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected...
...Cap & Muffler. Wags have said: "In England everything stops for tea." And contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...
...year income. Some tony innovations: a Club Enclosure (special section for 150 $50-a-year members who come in bowlers and tweeds), "lifts" in the grandstands, five bars, a ladies' tea room. But in spite of Director Allison's attempt to elevate the sport above the "cap & muffler" crowd, soccer is still, for the most part, the game of the working classes. England's upper crust still prefers cricket and rugby...
Groans of an oppressed clutch are heard as the truck hauls away in vain at the wall. It aways but will not give in. All the boys are depressed. "Goez, no fun," is their thought. But a sub-foreman with a Daniel Boone cap on has I'idee du jour...
...Also a good catch is a person who is a member of three or more organizations. C. More important than the size of income is its regularity and the nature of the occupation of a man for whom a girl sets her cap. The girl who has worked before marriage is a much better risk than one who has not. A teacher or skilled office worker is likely to make a good wife. But swains should shun the girl who has changed jobs frequently...