Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their heyday?from the 12th Century to the 18th. They existed, feared by King and peasant, fought by Pope and priest?at first in furtive bands, then in leagues more potent for evil than the once dread Maffia. What were they? With a definition the author rips off the cloak of Devildom and leaves his subject naked as a pair of tongs: "A sorcerer (or witch) is one who by commerce with the Devil has a full intention of attaining his own ends." Never mind the magic, what did the witches and sorcerers indisputably do? Their deeds fill this bulky...
Laboratory Theatre. East 58th St.--The acting company of the group gives its best performance in this gay comedy of Shakespeare, but the performances of "The Sea Woman's Cloak" and "The Scarlet Letter" are also worthy of high praise. The acting, as a whole, is the nearest thing to Moscow Art--which means theatre art--that we have in this country. (With the possible exception of the Neighborhood Playhouse...
Death, clad in an assassin's cloak, sprang last week at Senor Adolfo Diaz whom the U. S. has recognized as President of Nicaragua (TIME. Nov. 29). The President was riding alone in his carriage at 11 p. m. when two men armed with machetes rushed upon it from an alley. Quick-witted, Senor Diaz leaped out of the left-hand door of his carriage as the men wrenched open the right-hand door. A machete hurtled, split the leather of the President's left heel, bit into his flesh. The coachman, faithful, sprang from his box, fell...
...Born of heathen parents, he turned to Christ and became a catechumen. His parents forced him to give up the thought of serving God and made him enlist in the army of France. One day, quartered at Amiens, he met a naked beggar on the road and divided his cloak with him, immediately afterward beholding a vision of Christ who acknowledged from heaven this act of charity to himself "on the part of Martin,* still a catechumen." In the picture the corded body of the beggar tilts at the pale rump of the horse. Martin, wearing a ruff, inclined with...
...International Ladies Garment Workers Union and the Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturers Inc. signed a 36-clause agreement which binds the employes to give full work for their pay and the employers to have no business relation with non-union shops...