Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pope, dressed in full Pontifical robes-a golden mitre upon his head, a magnificent scarlet cloak embroidered in gold over his shoulders-with the gorgeous, glittering emerald ring upon his finger, rose from his sedia, and followed by two attendants who held the resplendent Flabelli-huge ostrich feather fans-at either side of his head, made his way to the throne...
Scaramouche. All that remains for, Scaramouche is that it be turned into an opera. First a pleasant popular novel; then a singularly fine cinema (TIME,Oct. 8); finally a moderately entertaining example of the cloak and sword in drama. An illegitimate child, a revolutionist, a wandering mountebank, finally "the most powerful man in Paris" during the Revolution; thus the fortunes of Scaramouche unfold. Unfortunately the quiet talents of that excellent actor Sidney Blackmer fit wretchedly the heroic velvet and sash of the hero. When fiery flame is needed he only smoulders pleasantly. Otherwise the cast and the production are considerably...
...screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash and Perlmutter play. Rosie is there-and Feldman the unscrupulous lawyer-and Irma Potash's love affair with Boris Anndrieff. Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr score heavily...
...disappointed Papa that he turned over Harold to Aunt Sadi, who made rather a sissy of him as a boy. Conventional, ingenious, inexperienced, Harold was horrified to find that his father's plans for his future included neither a family reunion nor an entry into the paternal cloak and suit business, but that instead his father proposed flinging him into the waters of life to sink or swim alone, assisted by an unlimited income, a corrupt English butler named Drains and a tutor, Paul Moody, of good character but no moral sense...
Secrecy continued to cloak the progress of the negotiations by which Secretary Hughes is trying to secure treaties with foreign powers to allow their vessels to enter American ports with liquor under seal in exchange for the privilege of extending the three-mile limit to twelve miles for the search and seizure of rum-runners...