Word: skullcaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decked himself in flowing blue robes, green-&-gold skullcap, ram's-horn necklace and a resounding title: Batoula, the Great Marabout and Prince of Zombie. As prince of an African voodoo cult, he spoke flamboyantly of 2,000,000 followers. In 1939 he made a trip to New York. Harlem gave him a lavish reception, and many a dusky laundress dreamed of becoming his Princess...
...Anesthetist of Mattoon, Ill. (pop. 17,500) is a tall, thin man who wears a black skullcap, and carries an instrument not unlike a Flit gun. He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...
Then the Pope stepped down from the dais and mingled with the newsmen. His watered-silk sash brushed against the uniforms of battle-soiled pressmen. His white-silk skullcap shone among battered steel helmets. Benignly he overlooked the breach of Vatican neutrality implicit in the side arms carried by a few army men. He smiled when he saw U.P.'s hefty Eleanor ("Pee Bee") Packard bulging in army slacks. "I haven't anything else to wear," said Correspondent Packard...
...Last week Isaac conducted the Fishberg family's Passover services with true patriarchal dignity. Fishbergs from Manhattan and The Bronx, with their wives and children, put away their fiddles and trombones to visit him in Brooklyn. Vigorous, blue-eyed Isaac, his grey, cropped hair covered with a black skullcap, looked them over sharply. Isaac (by a previous wife) had begotten so many children he could hardly keep track of them. Of a total of 16, ten-Arriga, Theodore, Jascha, William, Mischa, Pearl, Lisa, Bessie, Rebecca and Fishel-were in the U.S. Ten grandchildren were either professional musicians...
John Garner stepped close, rattled off the oath to grave Henry Wallace. In a voice that reached to Iowa, Mr. Wallace said: "I do," and was Vice President. Now the plaza became really still. Mr. Roosevelt moved forward. The Chief Justice had jerked off his skullcap. Mr. Hughes stated the oath and the President repeated the worn, full, old words: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...