Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beautiful evening in August 1582, Queen Elizabeth entered the ancient town of Coventry, and divesting herself of her clothing, mounted a snow-white stallion and rode through the principal streets of the city. On her way she met Sir Walter Raleigh, who, observing her naked condition, threw his cloak about her, crying, "Honi soit qui mat y pense!', which, being translated, means: 'Thy need is greater than mine!' The Queen graciously responded, 'Dieu et mon droit!', which translated means, 'My God, you are right!' This incident is called the Magna Charta...
...mural, tracing the history of the theater in Mexico, showed Mexico's favorite comic, Cantinflas, in the cloak of Juan Diego - the 16th century Indian to whom, by pious belief, the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared. A Roman Catholic group protested that this time Rivera had "exceeded the human limits of tolerance" by painting a leering Cantinflas as the symbol of "those who have turned their backs on Christ." Nothing of the sort, replied Rivera, with unctuous glee; his Cantinflas symbolized "the opposition of Mexico's poverty-stricken peasant masses to the country's 9,000 millionaires...
...dark, wet night A.D. 406, Caius Sempronius Felix, civil governor of Roman Britain, sat shivering all alone in a Hertfordshire bog with only a poor man's cloak against the wind, and wondered how in the world he had come to such a pass. The novelized story of Felix's fall, as told by Britain's Alfred Duggan in The Little Emperors, is the story of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain...
...Eisenhower was on his way to Korea, muffled in the most elaborate cloak of security the U.S. Secret Service could stitch together. As his car rolled toward Mitchel Air Force Base, the rest of his party materialized from their quiet "fadeaways" from everyday life. The three reporters assigned to the trip met at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station, then headed out for Long Island with the Secret Service in charge. Ike's Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson strolled slowly out of the Waldorf-Astoria without any luggage, took a cab to the southeast corner of 58th Street and Fifth...
Hollywood missed a fast little cloak & courier mystery in its own backyard, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons. Had Oona O'Neill Chaplin and husband Charlie Chaplin decided to live in Europe rather than face the Immigration Department's recent threat that Charlie might have trouble getting back into the U.S.? Wrote Louella: "Without a word of publicity and with only three people knowing it," Oona slipped into Los Angeles for four days to lock up the Chaplin home and close out the bank account. "There is a strong rumor that Oona took back to Europe with...