Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian spy melodrama labored into the last act. Five months after it started to probe the cloak & dagger activities of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, the Royal Commission on Espionage last week summed it all up in a fourth and final report. All told, it had uncloaked 17 Soviet Embassy officials, and charged them with spying in Canada...
...news sensation lasts longer than one day, the Paris press calls it an affaire. By last week the disappearance from France of Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was firmly established as I'affaire Mufti. The man himself was a character straight out of a cloak-&-dagger novel...
Actor Richardson's Falstaff was very likely the best that this generation had seen. It caught the lustiness as well as the wit. Falstaff was indeed "that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts" in the chambers of whose brain, as Hazlitt quoted, "it snows of meat and drink." Whether playing dead or playing the hero, making light of honor or rhapsodizing about sack, impersonating the King or embracing blowzy Doll Tearsheet (amusingly played by Joyce Redman), he rolled through the play, the greatest comic figure in English literature...
...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...
...According to Novelist Gustave Flaubert, Satan once disguised himself as the Queen of Sheba, exclaimed to Anthony: "I am not a woman; I am a world. My cloak has only to fall for thee to discover a succession of mysteries...