Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flower shop. He conducted a short-lived radio program, looked around for a steady job. And a job to Jimmy meant a political job. Last fall Mayor LaGuardia gave, him one: as $20,000-a-year tsar of industrial and labor relations for Manhattan's giant cloak-&-suit industry...
...Claims are easily made, easily written, easily read and just as easily dismissed. The fancy phrases and the shimmering adjectives used in framing claims often close the mind to truth and cloak the facts, giving an aura of reasonableness to empty conclusions. So, again I say, forget claims, son. Investigate impartially and thoroughly; approach the problem from ALL sides and then decide...
...Dukhobors are a Russian religious sect best known for their tendency to shuck off their clothes and parade naked through startled towns on the Canadian prairies. Less readily do Dukhobors shed the cloak of secrecy and deception in which they have hidden their affairs from a world they fervently mistrust. In Slava Bohu, Canadian Journalist J. F. C. Wright strips them down for good...
...since converted many a Brahman, written nine books (best-known: The Christ of the Indian Road, with sales past the 600,000 mark), founded at Lucknow the first Christian Ashram (from an Indian word meaning "a forest colony for spiritual fellowship and meditation"). In Indian costume-a long white cloak, tight trousers, sandals-Dr. Jones last summer led two Ashrams at Saugatuck, Mich, and Blue Ridge, N. C. as part of the spiritual preparation for the National Christian Mission. At Kansas City last week Missionary Jones set the themes which will echo and re-echo in the Mission...
Harvard officialdom has shrouded the construction of the Widener Annex in a cloak of mystery, to mask its progress with high, forbidding fences. This is an unwise attitude. The completion of the building requires student supervision. Only under the watchful eye of students can the work continue safely and efficiently; for, if the construction is supervised only by a totalitarian oligarchy of contractors, countless dangers are imminent...