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Much ado about nothing also appeared the trouble that the House had taken in perfecting the bill. The Southern bloc in the Senate, which is determined that no bill shall pass which does not provide a wage differential for the South, agreed to a cloak room compromise...
...these arguments can satisfactorily answer the poser of that two and five-eights. The fact is that Harvard and Princeton have made a laudable effort to pierce the hypocritical cloak enveloping the gridiron openings. Yale has refused. The Elis will quietly continue their pre-season conditioners at Gales Ferry prior to the opening date they recognize...
...immediate Harvard community is bound to suffer, for no one can be a household word and yet remain readily accessible for students or the public to tap the vast fountain of knowledge that is surely there. There was great danger that Professor Frankfurter, with the necessary anonymity that must cloak anyone who enters carefully hooded against the press, both the White House and Hyde Park by the side door, would soon vanish into the clouds and become an "informed source close to the President...
...Cambridge City Council, commented last night on its issuance: "Some of the women in the town started calling me up. I agreed with them that I didn't think it should fall into the hands of kids. It seemed to me to be a circulation stunt hiding under the cloak of education...
Citing the example of Italy's annexation of Ethiopia, a barren acquisition admittedly made to unify the Italian people and provide an outlet for rest lessness in the fighting forces, Wild said that the cry for colonies is only a cloak for Fascism's internal need for an enemy to flaunt before the people...