Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat (and the Forecasts have always been democratic). He voluntarily gave up his baronetcy and enter. Forecast Kant-leak Kote, the frst waterproof coal on the market. And he with the help of his advertising manager, a smart young chap named Raliegh, pulled the greatest publicity stunt that the cloak and trade has known, and the Forecast fortune was forthwith made...
Strenuous Days. Her Majesty no sooner reached the Ritz (in a fur trimmed coat of beige and green velvet with a close fitting hat) than she sallied forth again to the establishments of Patou and Redfern (in a regal purple hat exactly matching a long swishing cloak). Behind stepped Princess Ileana, demure in a blue frock, a leopard fur clasped about her throat, a small tan silk...
...night and poisoned wine-goblets; a Milanese tyrant blood-hounding men for sport; a hundred delicate situations saved by Macchiavelian wit or pretty compliments; and Bellarion, "half god, half beast," rising to power and at last claiming the lady-these are swiftest, richest Sabatini, than whom no sword-and-cloak man is more deservingly remembered, in the public's orisons...
Frenchmen spent the week in panicky expectation of whatever Finance Minister ("Wizard") Caillaux was about to produce from beneath the cloak of secrecy cast over even the least important of his doings...
...Soviet Government has abused its diplomatic rights and under the cloak of friendship has stabbed us in the back...