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...cloak of unprecedented secrecy which veiled Monday's practice session for the University gridiron forces once again descended over Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. No definite information concerning the activities of the coaches and players within the well-guarded walls of the Stadium could be gleaned from the official spokesman after the workout, the next to last one before the final struggle of the season at New Haven Saturday...
...South Dakota-born George Bain Everitt was first accountant, then cloak-and-suitman. He went into the Encyclopedia Brittanica Corp., dropped it for the textile business. In 1921 he went to Montgomery Ward, becoming president in 1926. At forty-three he is representative of Chicago's clan of young, debonair, clubmen-executives...
...lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities and delight...
Mail Order. National Bellas Hess Co., with a $40,000,000 yearly retail mail order business, has bought Charles Williams Stores, Inc., with a $17,000,000 retail mail order business. Both headquarters are in Manhattan. National Bellas Hess is successor of the National Cloak & Suit...
Since no words can cloak the fact that Sir William is a protectionist and Mr. Churchill a free trader, that fundamental disagreement between them was dismissed jocularly by "Jix" thus: "I should like to point out that this is the first occasion I have spoken in public since I made one of my indiscreet [protectionist] speeches some months...