Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well favored and soon made overseer. Then, during the warm, dry days when Potiphar was with his troops, his wife desired the lusty young slave that had come from the north, said to him, "Lie with me." When he refused and fled from the house, leaving his cloak in her hands, Potiphar's wife cried out that she had been attacked, caused Joseph to be jailed...
...cloak of secrecy which has concealed the names of the Crimson backfield which is slated to get the call for the opening clash of the season has finally been withdrawn and the gentlemen of the press who are covering Harvard football may once again lapse temporarily back into the even tenor of their ways. Not for some time have the University coaches had such a promising array of ball-carriers from which to choose a couple of versatile quartets. But it is safe to say that those who answer the referees starting whistle tomorrow may well be forced to give...
...form. In the first part Philippe Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary to attach great importance to the actions of those...
...union's plans for enlargement and improvement are to be carried out by several strikes in the near future. A subsidiary in Toronto is authorized to call a strike of 1,800 cloak-makers. Another subsidiary consisting of 7,000 embroiderers in Manhattan is also directed to undertake a strike. Strikes are now under consideration in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Toronto, Baltimore, Toledo, Kansas City. But the specific purpose of the bond issue is to finance a strike of 45,000 dressmakers to be called in New York...
...clambered ashore over the slimy rocks, most of us almost entirely unclothed. My nightdress was torn, and a sailor gave me an Arab cloak which was wringing wet. One of the ship's officers still wore his fez, but he had no trousers...