Word: chape
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...Place of the Belgian town of Chièvres-hardly grand and barely a place-stared sullenly as the cavalcade of black limousines and a police escort swirled up. "Things like that don't happen much around here," allowed one, "so we figured that it must be that Chape [Walloon dialect for SHAPE] thing again." It was. NATO's General Lyman Lemnitzer, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, was hunting new quarters...
...military bastion-Waterloo. Should the general accept Chièvres, farmers of the region will be no happier than he. One native, whose land stands to be plowed under, muttered: "I used to throw nails on the road during the war to give the Nazis flat tires. If Chape comes I'll throw some more...
...done anyhow, just as, 15 or 20 years before, Lady War wick's portrait had to be got through with. You can always count on a line of soldiers to stir people; a good fierce American eagle would be a useful 'property', as the theatre chape call it, and 'Our Old Flag,' from centre-stage, in the clarion tones of a Fourth of July speech, or an election rally, or of the columns of the 'Congressional Record,' would be certain to bring down a round of applause again...
...Reverend Paul Revere Frothingham '86, D. D. Minister of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, will conduct the services in Appleton Chape at 8.45 o'clock this morning...
...Reverend Elwood Worcester, D.D., rector of Emmanuel Church, Boston, will conduct morning prayers in Appleton Chape this morning at 8.45 o'clock...