Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ruddy, kindly face, under its cap of cropped grey hair, gave no hint that he was joking, and he wasn't, though in the old days he had been one of the foremost pranksters of the Dada school of art which preceded surrealism. Dada, said Arp in a recently published book of his writings (On My Way; Wittenborn, Schultz, $4.50), "gave the bourgeois a sense of confusion and distant, yet mighty rumbling, so that his bells began to buzz, his safes frowned and his honors broke out in spots...
...Pressure. I talked with Oskar Kochne, a blue-eyed, 21-year-old veteran of the Soviet zone's uranium mines. He was still wearing his dark blue miner's cap with its little aluminum shield of crossed hammers. Oskar was taken by the Russians almost two years ago, as he was traveling toward East Prussia to rejoin his family. The Reds sent him to the mining camp at Aue. He has worked there since, rising at 1:30 every morning, traveling two hours by rail to the closely guarded mines, working until 1 in the afternoon...
Roundup. In London, when things began to get out of hand at the regular showings of wild west movies, Manager Ross Hancock of the Rialto Theater sternly ruled that henceforth all children must check their cap pistols and knives at the box office...
Coach Lloyd Harper's men operated smoothly, efficiently, and effectively, but the game was no feather in their cap. Tabor just wasn't competition; its defense was as weak as punch at a Radcliffe mixer. The Crimson succeeded in pulling out the Tabor guards time and again, went around them and scored...
...Santa tumbled out of the plane. 'Merry Christmas,' he chirped gaily. The FBI man touched his cap. 'Will you follow me, please...