Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opera house, when the revolutionaries saw that the capitalists still had the boxes. Precautions were necessary. The officials ordered a force of soldiers to the opera house to search all who entered, and further gave forth the regulation that no one might go into the auditorium with a cloak or coat, since such were adapted to conceal bombs. Every wrap must be checked at the cloak room...
...only entrance to the parts will be at the Boylston Street gate of Smith Halls, and the front door of Standish Hall will be closed shortly before the dance begins. The Freshman Gymnasium will be used as a cloak room for ladies...
National conventions are often ridiculous enough, but at least men are sufficiently conscious of the absurdities to cloak the personalities in some pretense of policies. At least too, they have a definite purpose-and they don't have...
...moment of the play?by Maurice Hewlett's Quatrocentisteria, out of a legend of Botticelli?is when the beautiful Simonetta, offering to pose for the painter, comes to his studio, clad only in a cloak. Flinging the cloak from her she reveals herself to him, clothed only in a high-backed chair. Forgetting his love for her in his artistic enthusiasm for her beauty, Botticelli leaps to the canvas and starts violently sketching. It appears, however, that as a matter of fact Simonetta is not concerned so much with passing her beauty on to posterity. Her wants are far more...
...both ruined that moment by hypocrisy and shame, and the life in her soul had been killed. With the daughter he is slightly more successful. She begins to see the vision, with him, of a world transformed by love, divested of sham, in which everyone sees behind the cloak of the actual to the reality of the spirit, and in which minds commerce freely with each other. That is what he meant by love-a marriage of the spirit, in which one individual for a long or short period, saw deeply into the inner life of the other...