Word: caps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige and power of handsome, autocratic Prince Rainier lay under eclipse. With Monaco's solvency teetering in the balance, Rainier's National Council stepped in, began a searching investigation. First move: to persuade French police to arrest Banker Liambey in his villa at nearby Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat...
Uniform of the day was the blue, brass-buttoned blazer and snappy nautical cap of the well-heeled yachtsman; the easy banter was the well-oiled chatter of pleasure-boat skippers out for a good time. But back of the byplay, the briefing session in the Travers Island boathouse of the New York Athletic Club one evening last week was as studied and serious as a premission meeting of wartime PT-boat skippers...
...Airtight Cap. An airtight container cap that hermetically reseals a glass jar when the lid is pressed on has been put on sale by the Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Originally developed for baby-food packers, the Vapak lid prevents discoloration of food. It will be sold in a variety of sizes for food and drug items...
...officially -was that of chairman of the National Convention Committee (1934-39), Ringley has steadily increased his behind-the-scenes power. A persuasive lobbyist, he rates a large share of the credit for getting the G.I. Bill of Rights through Congress in 1944. With that success under his cap, he moved openly against the Ardery faction. His candidate for national commander, Illinois' ex-Governor John Stelle, lost to an Arderyman in 1944, but won the next year. Since then, the candidate publicly backed by Ringley has been elected every year...
Young Sofu began by calling his new approach the Grass Moon School, often dispensed with such traditional props as water vases and bamboo tubes, using instead a tiny flower or bud stuck in an empty lipstick container, the cap off a toothpaste tube or an empty perfume bottle. Sofu even went so far as to dye flowers, incorporate red bird feathers, use dried grass, withered leaves and dead flowers. A current popular Sofu arrangement: a dead lotus pod with a purple delphinium...