Word: skullcap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race or color, it is heartening to see among us a man of a race that is one of the oldest and most cultured in the world." The guest: Rabbi Theodore Lewis, spiritual director of 189-year-old Congregation Jeshuath Israel in Newport, R.I. Rabbi Lewis, wearing his black skullcap and a dazzling green tie, stood up to acknowledge the cheering "Caed Mile Failte" (100,000 Welcomes) of his fellow Irishmen...
...Feel Guilty." There, in vestments borrowed from the parish priest, Stepinac said Mass for a dawn congregation of peasant women. Only his purple skullcap marked his ecclesiastical rank. Later, Stepinac talked with newsmen. He looked sallow, but otherwise fit. How did it feel to be out of prison? "I am satisfied," he answered softly. "Here, or there, it is my duty to suffer and work for the Catholic Church...
...reason: the Soo had been hit by a raging epidemic of tinea capitis (ringworm of the scalp). Of 5,712 elementary schoolchildren, 1,300 had ringworm; so had 150 preschool moppets and 64 youths and adults. On streets and playgrounds, every bobbing head was topped with a white cotton skullcap, compulsory for schoolchildren, strongly recommended for all others. It was the severest ringworm epidemic ever recorded in Canada...