Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. Ardent playgoers well remember a last season drama named Chicago. Not so memorable is New York. In it a lonely shop girl goes grievously wrong. The manner of her going brought back to some more ancient listeners the flowery days of Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model,-days when a properly seething villain chewed up at least one set of scenery every evening...
...Birtwell's style affects the colorful and dramatic. By deft combinations of his typewriter keys he can invest an incident of seeming insignificance with an ours of mystery, a glamor of confidential secrecy, or a cloak of magnificent magnitude. At times he adopts, and very successfully, the attitude of an author of "Things I Shouldn't Tell". The fact that he never does tell them only renders his writings more interesting to the reader...
...centralize the legislature in the hands of Primo himself. Its temper is typical of the revolt against democracy; its obvious aims are to institute a more efficient government, perhaps to emulate the Platonic conception of the state, modified to meet modern needs; but it goes no further than to cloak constitutionality with the mantle of despotism...
Poet Jeffers unfolds just such a story,* with the high seriousness of a prophetic pantheist. He follows the Rev. Dr. Barclay, a man of 50, from a deserted pulpit southward down the Pacific coast from Monterey. Common sanity is dropping from him like a cloak that he may carry or not. His spirit runs naked to the spirit of the hills, of the "iron wind" on the sea promontories. He will be possessed of a god beyond the old ethic, "good and evil...
Soon epithets rang and adjectives cooed, as MM. les Deputés expounded their grand theme: The Sanctity of Motherhood. General conclusion: that the charge of "conspiracy" was only a detestable cloak of subterfuge under which the agents of a debased gendarmerie had ravished from a hungry infant its proper milk. By tens, and finally by hundreds, the Deputies demanded that the Government order Mme. Montard released. Premier Raymond Poincaré, great War President of France, faced an extremely dubious and trying dilemma. Obviously the woman could not be kept in jail; but the Cabinet had lost much of its prestige when...