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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...weather lays his cloak away...

Author: By R. W. Coues., | Title: WORK IS OF HIGH CALIBRE IN MAY HARVARD MAGAZINE | 5/10/1919 | See Source »

...Inquisition. It is no more to be countenanced in the communications of today than it is in the courts of the present time. If there exists a just cause for complaint or a worthy suggestion, then it should be made openly, for that which cannot be said except under cloak of anonymity had better remain forever unsaid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANONYMOUS LETTERS. | 1/28/1919 | See Source »

...author of the Belgium piece, might better confine himself to writing of unchastened women instead of the chastened kind, and Mr. Marcin, the other co-author, should stick to crook plays. As for Producer Woods, he is doing as well as when he produced "Bertha, the Beautiful Cloak Model," but not much better...

Author: By N. H. Ohara g., | Title: The Theatre in Boston | 3/28/1918 | See Source »

...shortcomings, the speaker proceeded to assert, for the pro-Germans know well that our country's ruthless enemies, whom they serve as far as they dare, desire nothing so much as to see this country afraid to acknowledge and make good its shortcomings; and those pro-Germans cloak their traitor-our aid to Germany under the camouflage of pretended zeal to save American officials from just criticism. "But there is an even lower depth," Mr. Roosevelt affirmed, "and this is reached by the men who treat the discovery of our shortcomings as a reason for relaxing our efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/28/1918 | See Source »

...from which we have nothing to gain." This lamentable fact is undoubtedly true. We would win no territorial acquisitions, no pecuniary indemnities. Small matters, like outrages upon American lives and property and national honor are not considered worthy of mention by pacifists. The entire platform, covered by a cloak of doubtful patriotism, is but an ingenious and dangerous summary of the sentiments of the "peace at any price" American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: What Do You Mean, Neutrality? | 2/16/1917 | See Source »

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