Word: skullcaps
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Last week, seated at a desk piled high with administrative work, he sighed. It had been simpler on the picket line. Besides, it was hard to take a healthy swig of water without losing the abbot's skullcap...
...list came out was Signor Gammarelli, the thin, clear-eyed tailor who has the arduous task of supplying cardinals with all the paraphernalia of a prince of the church. Even in the best of times a cardinal's wardrobe costs about $4,000, from his moire silk skullcap to his red silk socks and red morocco, silver-buckled shoes. Since one complete costume (a cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there would not be enough...
...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...