Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found him at the corner of Desplaines and West Madison at 10 o'clock in the morning outside the House of Rothschild bar. His eyes were very red. He wobbled over and grinned a fixed grin. "Mister," he said, unsteadily touching his cap, "I gotta have a shot." He explained that he had just awakened in the alley behind. "I didn't get in no fight last night," he said more or less proudly, and then felt his face to make sure. No marks. No dried blood...
Tough of mind, weak of body, he rested when he could, which was not often. His retreat was a modest cottage on Long Island, where he lolled around in a linen cap and pastel-colored beach robe. There, last week, in the small cottage, Sidney Hillman suffered a heart attack and died...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back at their bomb-nicked Cap d'Antibes chateau, royally entertained a group of U.S. reporters on an Air France publicity junket. Bubbled the New York Herald Tribune's food editor, Clementine Paddle-ford: "Two ice-filled silver buckets . . . sandwiches, one-bite big . . . again and again came the silver trays with fresh glasses of the bubbling champagne...
France's towering (6 ft. 7 in.) Yvon Petra stomped onto Wimbledon's famed center court wearing a white jockey cap and a belligerent look. His wife had just found him a steak. Said she: "With a beefsteak inside him, he can always win." She was right...
...wonder why everybody has taken up rowing all of a sudden. Retrieving his roommate from the House library, Vag started off across the Charles. The courts were crowded with spectators, but there was an empty one nearby. "Can't play there," yelled an even younger official with a baseball cap, "that's for the team." Vag asked about the courts across the way. "Are you for credit?" asked the boy. "Then you'll have to wait your turn." "Well, this isn't the first time," offered Vag generously. "It won't be too long, will it?" "We're all filled...