Word: cloak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still Chic. Returning to New York, Muriel cast the cloak of her social and artistic background over a host of Communist intellectuals and pro-Soviet organizations. After World War II, all the intensity which she had once devoted to arguing the merits of Beethoven or Gertrude Stein was given over to stock denunciations of "fascistic tendencies" in the U.S. and stock praise of life in the U.S.S.R. By 1949, still chic, still full of zest, she was president of the Communist-fronting Congress of American Women. The House Un-American Activities Committee in its report of that year gave Muriel...
Mark Clark is a proud and ambitious man; almost all good generals are. His enemies and critics say also that he is impulsive and overfond of publicity. In part these opinions are a recollection of the brash young general, enamored with cloak & dagger stuff, that Clark was ten years ago but is no longer; in part these opinions reflect the nervousness of Europeans, especially the British, when the U.S. puts any forceful man in the Far East. It so happens that the U.S. needs an aggressive, clearheaded and self-confident man in Tokyo-and Mark Clark is just that...
...Soon, with his brother Martin and others, he was dealing in Swedish military secrets and conspiring directly with agents working out of the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung on a wire fence in Stockholm in various shapes to convey various messages. To improve communications, one Russian agent equipped Enbom with a radio transmitter, which...
With the next episode, called A Woman of Sin, Hecht moves more successfully from the area of theatrical cloak & dagger to cinematic tongue in cheek. A Woman of Sin is the title of a trashy novel which is turned into an Academy Award-contending movie without the studio's discovering until too late that the author of this "great story of animal love" is a precocious, pixyish nine-year-old girl. As the beribboned, towheaded authoress, Jenny Hecht takes smoothly to her father's direction. Also participating in this fancifully frothy lampoon of Hollywood: Alan Reed...
...Major General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, wartime boss of the cloak & dagger Office of Strategic Services, now a Manhattan attorney, plunked for Eisenhower...