Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiction writers laid one golden egg after another and sold them for golden prices. The public craved, and was given, gulps of cloak-&-dagger melodrama or sack-suit passion. Some of the year's novelists managed, with the help of book clubs and cinemagnates, to earn a life annuity with a single book. Among the bestsellers...
What the Golden Fleece really was-a cloak tossed to earth by Zeus when he was drunk, or a sheepskin book of alchemic secrets, or the gilded epidermis of a young human sacrifice named Mr. Ram-nobody knows. But Robert Graves is quite sure that, whatever the Golden Fleece was, the voyage of Jason and his Argonauts really happened. His story of "how it really happened" shows the legendary cruise as one of the bawdiest, bloodiest, most boisterous expeditions of all time...
...Edgar Hoover's G-men saved the day is the tense story of The House on 92nd Street. The desperate goings-on centering around an inconspicuous Manhattan brownstone building (run by talented Swedish Actress Signe Hasso) escape the routine of cloak-&-dagger melodrama by their realism...
...Cloak & Dagger. But last month, fretting lest OSS land in the postwar dustbin with other wartime agencies, Wild Bill threw aside its cloak and gave the U.S. a glimpse of the dagger. In daily press releases OSS (sounding a little like one unaccustomed to public speaking) told some of its exploits. OSS men had wormed their way into Gestapo schools. Others had infiltrated Siam to turn Bangkok into an Allied listening post. They had manned a mosquito fleet running munitions and information to the Greek resistance movement, worked 18 months as advance men in Africa for the invasion...
...those days our Tokyo correspondent had to work incognito - operating like a ''cloak and dagger" boy and smuggling the news out by slipping it into the hands of American tourists on their way home...