Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more pages of Thompson and Johnson. As he reached the sidewalk something fell away from a dark figure in front of him. It was one of the Navy men, who'd dropped a book. The Freshmen leaned down at the same time as the man with the stocking cap on, and picked up the book and handed it to him. They both went into Hayes-Bick, and, walking in, the Freshman said, "Sort of cold...
...newspaperman in the film (Robert Young) meets Margaret when she arrives at a London refuge for orphaned children. She stands stiffly, a strange little figure with a tall stocking cap, the shell of a magnesium (incendiary) bomb slung on a cord around her neck, ceaselessly rubbing her dry eyes with her palms. The lady in charge (Fay Bainter) suggests that she may cry if she wishes. Margaret: "You won't smack me if I beller?" "No." Margaret begins to sob, finally relieves her pent-up tension and fears in wild, convulsing wails...
Beside the bridge, Signalman 1st Class Ralph Moore, pea jacket buttoned tight, watch cap pulled down over his ears, fiddled with a blinker signal. Beating his spray-flecked gloves together for warmth, Moore reported a destroyer's signal to take up position in the escort...
...constitute more than half of the first-string team. The probable starting lineup for Harvard in tomorrow's meet is as follows: 121-pound, Schless; 128-pound, Rothman or Wright; 136-pound, Taylor or Guild; 145-pound, Tying; 155-pound, Parsons; 165-pound, Albion; 175-pound, Fuller; Unlimited, Sosman (Cap...
...Hatter of Alice's Wonderland had nothing on Ed Wagenfeld of Local 45 of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union. But this latter day hatter, who divides his time between Adams House and Littauer as one of the fellows under Harvard's Trade Union plan, isn't eccentric like Lewis Carroll's haberdasher. He's just peeved; peeved at "hatless Harvard." Hats are bread and butter to Mr. Wagenfeld. Harvard men care very much for bread and butter; very little for hats...