Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...semi-versified lines with conviction. Stanley Ridges is a particularly happy choice for the character of hard bitten Lucifer Tench. No less happy is the casting of Margalo Gillmore as the full-blown, romantic Mary Philipse. As Washington, Philip Merivale is close to perfect. Mr. Merivale is the greatest cloak-swinger on the U. S. stage. He swung one in The Road to Rome (1927-28). He swung another in Death Takes a Holiday (1930-31). He swung a third in Mary of Scotland (1934). His melancholy face with its skin stretched across the cheekbones like rawhide on a saddle...
...gentleman with the shadowy cloak of anonymity began...
Leaving a Los Angeles concert, wily Cinemactress Greta Garbo chose a rear exit. In the alley outside she came face to face with a wilier cameraman. For a moment camera-hating Garbo hesitated. Then, hoisting skirts and cloak, she covered her face, exposed her petticoat, fled straight past the delighted photographer...
...world has lost nothing. Harvard and Tech are perhaps guiltiest of all schools in buying outstanding talent from other institutions. Would Professor Wiener dare say that the men who replace these professors in the dispossessed schools are "jealous little men who hide themselves under the skirts of the cloak of scholarship?" No, Professor, we do not believe that after the few Jews and liberals depart the German faculties that only fools are left. The Jews and the liberals did not alone make Germany great...
Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits...