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...heart attack; in Providence, R.I. As a World War I battalion commander, Buxton persuaded Alvin C. York,* sometime conscientious objector, that a man could fight his country's enemies and still be a good Christian. In World War II, Textile Tycoon Buxton served as assistant director of the cloak & dagger O.S.S...
Then wrapping himself in a cloak of political doubletalk, Henry grandly brushed aside criticism of Soviet totalitarianism. "The Russians," he explained, "approach the democratic principle through an economic dictatorship." Said Sol Bloom: "Oh, stop kidding...
...back into the talk." If the British custom of retiring after dinner is not observed in Mauretania, John Bull is encouraged to show firmness: "If Mr. Bull wishes to leave the drawing room, he must simply stroll from the room . . . and ask a servant to direct him to the cloak room...
...lectern. She did not, as some had predicted, arrive on broomstick, astride a lion, or floating on a stream of gurgling honey. She was clad in her poetical uniform (as publicized in Life): a long, green dress, heavy coils of silver around her wrists, and a floor-sweeping, golden cloak with slits for her hands, which clutched her two books, and a large, black, and jarringly prosaic leather handbag...
...example of some the best in college humor is "At the Pleasure XXII." It treats, with outlandish seriousness, the recent Fisher Affair with its "Cloak and Dagger" aspects. The author presents some imaginary notes from the diary of the harried undergraduate underground organizer. "Wednesday. Enervated this morning. I think I am being poisoned by my enemies . . . To Students' Clinic in Hygiene Building, where examined after registering under false name . . . Retired early. Arranged some pillows to appear like sleeping form in my bed, spent the night on floor underneath...