Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formidable figure: John L. Lewis. He posed a formidable dilemma: his coal miners could not work on "cereals and vegetables" and there was "grave unrest" among them. Meat-famished miners had walked out of five collieries in Virginia. Touring a mine area in West Virginia, Interior Secretary Julius ("Cap") Krug agreed with Lewis that miners must have more meat...
Everyone, that is, but Johnny. His white cap cocked, Harry Lundeberg gave his considered opinion of "those phonies" in Washington. "I warned Schwellenbach and the WSB that when this union takes a strike vote it means it. Old sister Schwellenbach keeps calling me but he's wasting the taxpayers' money. Even Ma Perkins was better than him. We're not playing politics, we're counting our economic strength...
...flanked by deeper furrows of cynicism. Even in his guerrilla days, Tito insisted on daily shaves and neat dress. Now, as Yugoslavia's first marshal, he gleefully indulges his fancy for uniforms (his latest number: dress blues with four-inch red trouser stripes, gleaming ebony boots, visored cap with gold braid and a red star, immaculate white doeskin gloves). But sometimes his public relations men ask him to pose in civilian clothes to seem closer to the masses. After long indecision, Tito finally chose his marshal's insignia (made of felt): a star wreathed in gold laurel...
...past seven months burly Baron Digby has risen at 6:30 a.m. After breakfast his Lordship, wearing his habitual thick brown tweeds and checked cap on his bald head, steps into the stone-paved yard of his rambling Tudor manor house. Standing by the dairy is a neat, navy blue, electric van, loaded with Guernsey milk from Lord Digby's 30 pedigreed cows, pastured on his 200-acre farm. Accompanied by his helper, aged Edwin White, Lord Digby hops in and sets off to deliver milk to the inhabitants of Cerne Abbas...
...stretched out on a divan, his hands folded across his stomach." The "notorious collaborator"-exiled by the Allies for winking his pouchy eyes at the Axis (TIME, May 24, 1943)-enjoyed full liberty, was fawned upon by a score of wives, a large retinue including a court jester. To cap it all, he was campaigning for reinstatement as Bey of Tunis...