Word: cloaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John D. Rockefeller: "When I recovered from my recent illness, I went out and played golf. Motion picture men photographed me holing a 14-foot putt. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst Editor, commented: 'Alexander, addressing his dissatisfied generals, held up his purple cloak, saying that was all that he had got out of it. Mr. Rockefeller might hold up his little golf ball and putter, saying: "This is about...
Indifference is a good cloak: it helps to keep one a good Democrat or a good Republican or even a good citizen, but it is hard on posterity. Some morning, say twenty cycles and four immensities ahead, the human race will wake up and chide the government because there is no sun. At 10 A. M. the officials, working by electric light, will have digged far into the ancient archives in search of prophecies concerning the present catastrophe. By 4 P. M. perhaps they will have found this entry: "Collision in Lyria...
Tuesday saw another word-battle. Senator Heflin rose to speak on the New berry case, and there was a rush to the cloak room. Even those who remained committed the discourtesy of whispering among themselves. Whereupon Mr. Heflin waxed wroth and denounced the whisperers in no uncertain terms. Then followed an orgy of name-calling equal only to that of the day before. Needless to say, these remarks were "expunged from the record". And another expunging followed on Wednesday when some ill-considered remarks of Senator Reed's on the visage of Mr. Volstead vanished before the eraser...
...individuals, groups, and the College as a body, be not too hasty in passing judgment upon things perhaps not fully understood. When this is done, and when individuals can assume without danger of social ostracism the cloak of originality, Dartmouth can once more boast of its democracy and its far-sung spirit whose teachings we have too long neglected. The Dartmouth
...fantasy "Hagoromo", Miss Madeline Brine, as the Tennin girl, will portray the Japanese nymph whose feathery cloak, capable of giving its owner the power to fly through the wind and clouds, is stolen by the fisherman, played by Henderson Matthews. She is unable to return to her native haunts in Tryiyama without it, and finally retrieves if from the fisherman by teaching him the quaint dance of the Tennins...