Word: caps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Band and Marshals Walter F. Greeley, Richard E. Johnson and James M. Storey led the cap and gown procession which assembled in front of the Widener steps and marched double line into the Quad...
...still overwhelmed, but confident small-college President landed in Boston amid a mass of photographers and reporters yesterday and proceeded to disarm all observers. Nathan M. Pusey, replete with class of '28 cap, vest, and tie, seemed completely at case before as large an array of the press as he has probably ever seen...
...minor role of police sergeant, William Cowperthwaite mugs a bit too much, and can not maintain his expression all the time. But his mugging is often funny, and not long enough to be boring. Choreographer Mary Arnold has conceived many fine routines and settings to cap a truly delightful show. Robert J. Schoenberg
...river bank festooned with gaily colored lanterns. Mimi made her entrance in a sled carved like a swan. At a signal, all lights except those from a bank of flaming punch bowls were doused, and fur-coated flunkies served up a feast of Parisian delicacies and champagne. To cap the party, a clump of snow-cleared pines was set ablaze, and the guests skated till dawn...
...World War II began, Cap Rieber managed to get some German-built tankers in exchange for blocked currency. Even though the deal was approved by the warring British (who thereby chartered two of Texaco's tankers), it set off yelps that he was "pro-Nazi." Rather than risk hurting the company. Rieber resigned with a sailor's cheerful certainty that "no matter how fierce a storm may come, it always calms down...