Word: capping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reposed his elbow on his knee, shoved his cap over to an effectively hard-boiled angle, and went on: "I understand that there is some difference of opinion among civilians concerning the right and wrong of prohibition. Some of it got into camp, but those on the negative side are in the brig. It's a closed question to the military, so as long as you wear those uniforms, don't get opinionated...
...blonde hair (The Gold Diggers, Grounds for Divorce, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). She has managed to withstand the floodlight of attention which the press of three continents turned loose on her honeymoon abroad, still in progress. There was one crucial night at Cap D'Antibes when she and Gilbert argued about what to do after dinner-he for staying in, she for going outa night spent so distinctly to her own taste that at 5:30 a. m. Gilbert, still sitting up and still alone, got into his car and drove...
...Ships. The Charles W. Morgan has been, through the interest of Col. Green and others, made into a whaling museum, rigged and outfitted as she was when she was built and made her first voyage in 1849. Aboard her as master is Capt. George Fred Tilton, whose autobiography, Cap'n George Fred, was published by Doubleday, Doran in 1928. He is the last of the old whaling skip pers. His book is interesting, but his lectures are far more so, and intimate talks with him (aided and abetted by certain refreshments) even more so still. He describes, apparently accurately...
...Anne and Augustus (Lindbergh) were added Ina and John (Gilbert), presently to be followed by Florence and John (Coolidge). Last week in anticipation of the event Mrs. Coolidge went on a little journey with her daughter-in-law-to-be?whose ivory satin princess wedding gown by Patou, cap of duchesse lace and bouquet of orchids and lilies of the valley were already matters of record. Together they visited New Haven, where John is a clerk in the offices of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., and inspected the four-room $78-per-month apartment which Florence...
Dropping work at once Dictator Mussolini ordered out his racing Alpha Romeo, donned a linen duster, cap and heavy goggles, drove at breakneck speed 250 miles over especially cleared roads to Donna Rachele. Even then he did not forget the grain. A harvest conference with leading Italian producers had been scheduled for next day in Rome. Brusquely the conferees, including Minister of Economy Alessandro Martelli, were ordered to speed to Forli too. There in the government building hastily swept out for the occasion. Babe & Grain Generalissimo Mussolini continued his fructive campaign, ordered still wider distribution of his famed propaganda poem...