Word: capped
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Although the highest tablelands and slopes of western Newfoundland have had no recent glacial cap, some of them are today not very far removed from a local glacial condition. Practically every summer, compact snowbanks lie on the northern-facing slopes; and it is evident that, by a very slight reduction of the mean annual temperature these snowfields would be transformed into alpine glaciers...
Evidence that Western Samoans have turned envious eyes on their eastern brothers under the administration of U. S. Cap tain Graham in Pagopago was published by a potent spokesman for the Man, the N. Z. Samoa Guardian...
...British Ambassador in his red jacket. Finally the great White House gates swung open and Citizen Hunefeld marched grandly at the head of his procession up the curving sidewalk to the big glass doors of the White House. When these opened Citizen Hunefeld did a gallant thing: removing his cap, he stepped aside to allow Mrs. Barrett to lead the line past the President...
Most startling 1930 innovations are the Cord and Ruxton front drive cars which stand barely five feet high. Some models of the Willys-Knight are painted partly to resemble Scotch plaid; radiator caps are lower, some being merely dummies. One dummy cap is fashioned like a gunsight, perhaps to perfect the driver's aim. Some cars (Franklin, Packard, Graham) have abandoned ventilating slits in the hood and substituted small doors. The Pierce-Arrow, tenaciously traditional, retains its headlights on the fenders...
...Washington. Southern papers quickly screamed that he was a coward. In Baltimore, the slighted city, citizens incensed at his failure to appear, wrecked vengeance on a Massachusetts regiment on its way through their city. Harper's Weekly printed a full-page series of cartoons showing a grotesquely night-capped and bewhiskered Lincoln sitting up in bed while a lackey shouts: "The Blood tubs are after yer!" Lincoln replies, "Run-no-nev-a-r-r let 'em shoo-o-t." Finally, attired in his Scotch cap and long military cape (misconstrued as a disguise) "Abe" retreats over the back...