Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waving flags to patch things up when a crisis impends. Interspersed among the cliches are a number of bedroom passages involving Jennifer and Gregory, a bunch of mob scenes in the grand old DeMille tradition, and here and there a few small bits of genuine character portrayal. To cap off this two-hour-plus marathon there is perhaps the bloodiest climax in a long, long time-heroine and hero shoot each other full of holes, only to suddenly find that they are madly in love. Bathed in Technicolor gore, they crawl across a pile of rocks to die in each...
Swathed in sweaters and towels, and wearing a white umpire's cap over bristling white hair, Haines is a striking sight, and seems almost functionally adapted to leaning into stiff breezes with overtones of cold spray to catch the fleeting error that can throw a whole crew off. When approached about the present write-up, he looked hesitant and said dubiously, "You know, I don't want there to be too much of this 'Bert Haines' business." Every man is, of course, entitled to his opinion about this...
Another was Wisconsin's hulking Interior Secretary Cap Krug. He had the disadvantage of John Lewis' sworn enmity, but the advantage of a World War II record in the Navy and enormous political ambition. (In the capital last month a mysterious tabloid called the Washington Examiner had already started booming him for the presidency...
Regarding your article "Disaster" [TIME, April 7]. To what degree Governor Dwight Green is guilty in this frightful tragedy will remain to be hashed out at the next election. [Or] to what degree Secretary of the Interior J. A. ("Cap") Krug is a murderer...
...only "culturally" drunk, that is to say, not stinkingly so. Another man saw us walking along the street by the theater, and because we were dressed differently from Stalingradites, took us for the orchestra of a variety show that was playing at the theater. He doffed his cap to us and smilingly called: "Hail to the musicians. Thanks for coming to this city...