Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When I opened the door, there was Sedgwick, and was he ever a sight with sore eyes. Matter of fact, he had them both bandaged so he could hardly see. There was a gentleman with a chauffeur's cap and a dour expression leading my poor roommate...
...says pay me three dollars and fifty cents," snaried the man with the cap. "Cab fare from the Warren Avenue Police Station, Roxbury," he appended with simple dignity...
...Washington, Secretary of the Interior Julius A. ("Cap") Krug's home was burglarized while he was exploring the nation's interior. Gone: one leather jacket, two watches, three gold studs (with diamonds), a few gold trinkets, one $20 gold piece, and four golden cases of Scotch...
...richly detailed picture of the Edwardian era in which he was reared. He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, but "to my family I was and always have been 'David.'" He recalled "the great Queen" as an old lady in a white tulle cap, black satin dress and "shiny black shoes with elastic sides. But what fascinated me most about her was her habit of taking breakfast in little revolving huts [in the grounds of her residences, Windsor, Balmoral and Osborne] mounted on turntables so that they could be faced away from the wind. Weather...
Blades for Bottle Caps. The old man, the late King C. Gillette, whose mustachioed countenance is one of the company's trademarks, was once a bottle-cap salesman. While shaving one day in 1895, he tried to think of some invention as indispensable, disposable, and cheap as a bottle cap. Result: the first idea for a safety razor with a throw-away blade...