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...rampart we hurried; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. . . . No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet or in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around...
...filibustering Southerner who feared that the Senate might actually invoke cloture† and bring the distasteful Marcantonio bill to a vote. He played it straight, without a single giveaway. In his most sonorous tones he pleaded: "Ah ... do not choke us, do not throw around us the cloak of silence. ... We beg of you not to throttle us, not to throttle the truth, not to throttle the right...
...hour dissertation on senility by the master, now nearing four years and twenty, all potential contributors weighed their 90 averages against the clamor of a well-read public, and have reneged "till the smoke clears." But we advocates of a free press stand in open defiance, from behind our cloak of anonymity, of course...
...seems that those who would heckle these people could Letter apply their energy in smoking out the rats who stroll forth under the cloak of church or civic respectability and copulate freely on a clandestine basis...
Bombs splattered over this Gauguin landscape, and presumably naval gunfire added its voice to the destruction, but the U.S. battle fleet wrapped itself in a cloak of radio silence-which left the damage done, and the fleet's further operation, an incompleted tale...