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...This fight is fundamentally one for men's minds. The effort must, therefore, be made by ideas which appeal to the aspirations of men's souls. With such ideas we will win; without these all the money and Cominterns and 'cloak and dagger' services in the world will fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Strongest Force | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Shea urged more students to check their coats in the cloak room provided for the purpose to the right of the main turnstile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener Reduces Winter Thievery | 11/19/1947 | See Source »

...muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or king of the celebration, attended parades, parties, sports events, suitably attired in scanty trunks, a long yellow cloak and a bright-colored helmet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Something Old, Something New | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Allegro, with all its faults, is an impressive effort in a good cause: it is the latest sortie in that well-nigh-won revolution against cloak-and-daguerreotype operetta and June-moon musicomedy. In that revolution, Oscar Hammerstein is certainly one of the heroes. He put something like real people into Oklahoma! and Carousel; but Allegro is by far the most realistic of his librettos, by far the most deliberate manifestation of the New Look he gave to musical plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...burned at the stake in Rouen, but the wicked English still hold the city, and one of Jacques' jobs is to turn them out. Another is to find Charles a new mistress. Along a country road comes golden-haired Valerie Maret, beautiful in her tender innocence and tattered cloak. "By St. Martin of Tours," cries Jacques. "Remarkable! There can be no doubt about it. Yes, my argus-eyed Nicolas, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cloak-&-Sworders | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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