Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johns-Manville president is Theodore F. Merseles, 63. He has been, successively and with much success, a railroader, bicycle maker, cloak and suit mail order man. In 1921, when the price slump had dragged Montgomery Ward & Co. (everything by mail, from engagement rings to fox-traps) into a nine million dollar deficit, he was called in as its president. The 1922 balance sheet showed profits of $4,562,607. He revolutionized the buying and inventory control, tripled gross sales in five years (to some 200 millions in 1926), and made record profits of $11,358,498. When he resigned...
...relations with these ladies, Wagner provided the world with one of those astonishing paradoxes by which a brilliant man is enabled to write love letters which in their idiotic banality would have disgraced Daddy Browning, to conduct his indiscretions in a manner of an unfaithful cloak-and-suit drummer, and to make these mediocrities important by virtue of the astounding music into which the chemistry of genius transformed them...
...Crystal loosened my tight little moral cloak to an unshackling wind and pinned it back with something as hard and bright and impersonal as a star...
...director included a pretty romance. The only person in the hills who can read is Rob Warwick (Forrest James). He alone knows that in the outer world beyond the mountains, women are protected and respected, that a woman was once invited by a man to tread upon his cloak in order to avoid soiling her shoes. Such regard he would have for Barbara Allen (Helen Munday) of the North Carolina Hills. But his father, having worked his mother to death, decides to take that girl to be "his new woman," after concluding a bargain with her father. The two young...
Wrapped deluge round it like a cloak, and they...