Word: cloaked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appealing for more positive teaching, Dr. George S. Counts of Columbia urged those present at the recent meeting of the National Education Association to throw off the cloak of impartiality in their instruction. He impressed on them the necessity of attempting to "indoctrinate" their pupils with the traditions, especially the democratic traditions, of the nation. It is his belief that the present system of giving all theories equal value prevents the student's ever accepting any one. "In eschewing prejudice," he states, "we fail to achieve direction...
...Pershing, temperate Frank Billings Kellogg?made it apparent that the distinction of appearing on a de Laszlo canvas could only be surpassed by that of appearing on a postage stamp. King Fuad of Egypt was painted from the side, against a tan background which suggested deserts, with a black cloak wrapped around his neck and an expression of monarchical preoccupation. Socialites? who compose the majority of Painter de Laszlo's subjects?included Mrs. David Bruce, Mrs. James B. Duke, Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., Miss Hope Iselin, Mrs. Ogden L. Mills, Anne Morgan, and Mrs. Jesse Isidor Straus...
Tiffany Thayer is audacious; he keeps telling you so, just in case you might forget it. But his strenuous manner is more a form of nervousness than a cloak for really big doings. Publisher Claude Kendall ballyhooed Author Thayer into a bestseller; now he has changed his publisher...
Last week the Federal Farm Board went on trial for its life before the Senate Committee on Agriculture. Lifted for the first time was the cloak of official secrecy with which for 28 months it had guarded the details of the Board's wheat and cotton stabilization operations. Curious Senators poked roughly into facts and figures which Farm Boarders had long feared would damage their agency's economic prestige. What was disclosed served to intensify the industrial clamor for the Board to be abolished as a futile waster of public funds. Lobbyists for farm organizations were no less...
...jingling of the guinea helps to cloak apostasy...