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...gained from his literary associations in London and Paris, Yeats became the leader of this faction-whose foes, it was agreed, were the blackguards and fools who championed moral complacence, social respectability and badly written books. Among these foes Yeats circulated bravely and ceaselessly. With his long, flowing cloak, hair, tie and pince-nez ribbon, hawk face and eagle brow, he impersonated a priestly poet so perfectly that many were won to believe that such a thing could exist. With Edward Martyn, George Moore and Lady Gregory he founded the Abbey Theatre (1904), gave the often mocking and protesting public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Pele's lava floods sealed many of these graves, hid many relics of Hawaii's past. One royal feather cloak is left in the Bishop Museum at Honolulu; it is valued at a million dollars. It took 100 years to make such a cloak. Only feathers of a certain texture, color and length were used; one from under each wing of the o-o or mamo birds, one from the head of the male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Mauna Loa Erupts | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt jammed his broad-brimmed soft felt down over his thinning grey hair, hooked the top frog of his officer's boat-cloak, came ashore at Pensacola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Year VIII | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...anti-craft gun will be the one piece of artillery that may survive undamaged," Leet stated, "but there is a possibility that later adjustments to the seismograph may even strip this gun of its cloak of secrecy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Enemy Gun Batteries Can Be Located By Adapted Seismograph, Leet Finds | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

There are three other well-known versions of the Fifth: Koussevitsky (victor), Weingartner (Columbia), and Furtwaengler (Victor). The last two are the recognized experts in Beethoven-rendition. The Weingartner is well-read, albeit a little conservative but gives Beethoven itself a chance rather than garbing it in a cloak of false colors. The Furtwaengler is a truly magnificent recording, not as literal as the Weingartner, but with tremendous sweep and surge, and recorded beautifully, even though it was issued several years ago. The Furtwaengler is best, but all three are better than Maestro Toscanini's version which sound like...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: SWING | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

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