Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hitherto unrecognized painting by Jan Vermeer of Delft (1632-1675), who is acclaimed by some discerning critics as the greatest painter of all time, has been discovered in Paris. It represents a young boy, half-length, full-face, auburn curls, scalloped collar, yellowish silver-gray jacket, brownish-red cloak. Many connoisseurs had seen the picture but had not suspected its authorship until a dealer, noting the resemblance to Vermeer's charming Young Girl in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, found various other clues, and was corroborated by the leading Vermeer critic...
...interest thus aroused lures them by tens and dozens to part with $4.40 to see this bizarre Melinda Mulch-the leading lady with a leaning toward canvasback ducks. As a matter of fact -Miss Mulch has never seen a canvasback duck except during the game course as her current cloak-and-suit man nourishes her at the Ritz. Miss Mulch would be thoroughly at a loss as to the line of conduct one follows with an unroasted duck. In fact, she may be secretly annoyed. Whence, then, do these stories come? Why, if there is no duck, is a duck...
...REJUVENATED) FOLLIES? The outlook wasn't brilliant for the buyers when Mr. Ziegfeld announced the second season of the year-old Follies. Thousands of pleading, imprecating letters from cloak-and-suit men the country over forced him to change his mind. Accordingly he has published a " revised " edition of the Follies. Retaining Gilda Gray, Gallagher and Shean, Evelyn Law, Andrew Tombs, he has added such personages as Ann Pennington, Brooke Johns, Eddie Cantor. The result is a freshening pulse throughout...
...daughter?wonder what Justice Ford's unmarried daughter thinks about it all??Gertrude Atherton?Black Oxen?hoping against hope that the Steinach process of rejuvenation will not be applied to various literary prominencies?books about sex?a few books not about sex?Sabatini and the gorgeous return of cloak-and-sword...
...command that no late comer be admitted, arrived in early crowds. They were greeted by a file of soldiers who lined the lobby and began searching everybody. The search went slowly and the crowd swelled before the theatre. The people who had been searched trooped back to check their cloaks. In the cloakroom stood the same single old fellow of yore. Nobody had thought of putting on extra help for the wholesale cloak checking. Between these two sources of delay only a few hundred people got into the auditorium. The crowd grew restive, as excitable Italian crowds will. Then...