Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boxers were garbed in brown kid gloves and black tights, over which the champion draped a Canadian blanket, and Risko (Clevelander) wore a ringside cloak resembling a brown plaid bathrobe. These latter were dispensed with and the pasting began. Before the first round was over Mr. Berlenbach discovered that the 15 1/2 lb. he had given away were coming back to him with a vengeance. Most of these pounds seemed to be in Mr. Risko's left mitten. Toward the end of the first round the knowledge of how much weight he had given away came to Mr. Berlenbach...
...which has broken out with the Spring weather seems to be merely the rivalry of ambitious generals for control of the government, the hegemony of the Far East hinges on its result. It is no secret that the present government is being subsidized by Moscow in order to cloak communistic propaganda directed at the foreign powers who have a foothold there. In an effort to counteract the Soviet influence, Japan stirred up the Manchurian revolt...
Chicagoans were already well acquainted with Miss Patterson as an actress, had often seen the accompanying photograph of her as Nun Megildis in The Miracle. They were further supplied with a portrait of her in her opera cloak and pearls; with a view of the red lacquer ballroom of the Palmer House, crowded with fashionable guests, where she made her début; with a "closeup" of a boudoir table which might have been hers, displaying more pearls and two jars of Pond's cold and vanishing creams...
...will be connected with the more remote stacks by a barrage of pneumatic tubes which will speedily supply any books requested. Since such a large number of Yale's students commute from nearby towns, there will be a so-called "Non-Resident's Room" which will contain thoroughly adequate cloak room facilities, seats, encyclopedias and reference books for 300 students. Adjoining this room will be the Andrews Loan Library, which has about 10,000 textbooks which may be used by self-supporting students. Many self-supporting students will have the opportunity of getting employment on the library's force...
...martial law is significant. And the indifference with which Congress greeted the recent speech of Senator King on the subject shows that the government is as reluctant as ever to give up this profitable possession. On this occasion it was asserted that American dominion was being used as a cloak to exploit the resources of the archipelago...