Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first man who called upon him wore glasses and a long cloak, and carried the Fortnightly Review in his hand. He was a literary man, and said, "Respected Sir, this college demands a literary magazine. I leave you my essay on the 'Superstitions of Composition, in its Relation to Modern Thought,' for your first number...
UNDER the cloak of irony a writer in the last Crimson raises the cry, "Away with the exercises around the tree on Class Day. They are a disgrace to the students, making them appear as rowdies and boys rather than as gentlemen. Let us have no more of them...
...bishopric, whose influence the same gentleman thought to be so very necessary for the infidel students at Harvard! The ingenuity of special pleading in defence of "wide and generous views" loses vitality when the speaker is felt to be narrow-minded, and is suspected of seeking to cloak his own real ideas in wordy, philanthropic expression as to the necessities of the times! The students at Harvard have had much to stand from those cavillers who have made aspersions as to their want of religious ardor or interest, but in this respect, we think that the student...
...Like a cloak the mist spread o'er the earth...
...pity. We may blame him for his quickness in discovering our vices and our failings, or for his slowness to appreciate our virtues; we may complain that he seeks the disease rather than the remedy; yet we seldom accuse him of untruth. But Thackeray's sarcasm is a cloak for his compassion. He is content to assume the form of derision, that he may the better excite our indignant pity...