Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...souls in Western colleges who are reported to be praying for Harvard's spiritual welfare the news that Appleton Chapel is to be reserved wholly for members of the University next Sunday must come as a welcome answer to their pleadings. But to the student who has found a cloak-room jam at every door of the Chapel whenever Dr. Fosdick was to speak the announcement comes rather as evidence of a true spirit of brotherhood among University authorities. Perhaps the only persons to feel disgruntled are those residents of Cambridge who have so far forgotten their college habits...
...This will be the greatest structure ever erected by any community to tell its own living will", says Chancellor Bowman of the new edifice. The determination to rise to dizzy heights instead of staying close to the ground is masked under the cloak of convenience, saving in land investment, better light, etc., but it is perfectly obvious that an exuberant community is merely indulging in a little self-advertising. No starting academic progress may be expected from such an innovation, and on the grounds of sentiment the thing becomes preposterous. Buildings pleasantly mantled with ivy, the play of sunlight among...
David Belasco, wizard of the realistic stage, is about to sell his collections- artistic and otherwise. There is a work table of rosewood, gift to his mother from Edwin Booth; there is a cloak worn by Booth as Don Cesar de Bazan; a French harp once belonging to the Empress EugÉnie; Staffordshire ware, vessels, plates, figurines; European and Chinese porcelains; Chinese porcelain birds; Capo di Monte figurines; English, U. S., Bohemian glass; wood carvings; furniture from France, England, Italy; early textiles, brocades, needlework panels, cushions, banners; Chinese, Persian, Caucasian, Turkish rugs; arms and armor of all periods...
...find his house on fire; he climbed up on the icy roof, praying that he would slip. He did. Down to the pavement he fell, injured his spine, with resulting paralysis of the legs. The next week Mrs. Knapp went to the store, got a job in the cloak-and-suit department, worked to the top until she was making three times as much as her husband ever did. He, though not adept at darning socks, made the children happy because he understood their minds and did not fuss if they tore their rompers. But one night he found...
...skin-tight red bathing suits; girls in cotton frocks; Cheka battalions, for protection, whose blue helmets added yet another splash of color. And last, but not least, Mohammedans from Turkestan and the Tartar Republic, draped in multicolored flowing robes, and a great Caucasian tribesman in an ample gray cloak over which were slung cartridge bandoleers, a sword-belt holding many silver knives and supporting a wicked-looking scimitar...