Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rembrandt van Rijn sat down to paint his own picture. Often had he done it before; often was he to do it again. Most profound artists are introverts, seekers of their own devious mysteries. In the mirror Rembrandt studied his greenish, fur-lined cloak, his quietly folded hands. But ever and again he returned to probe his own sad eyes, perhaps hypnotized himself as people do who gaze in mirrors. He saw a man who was not intoxicated exclusively with his own painting, but who loved the work of other men and, indeed, bought so much of it that...
...While mingling with his people, incognito, one night last week, the Shah of Persia was assaulted by ruffians, who fled in screaming terror when his dirty cloak flew open and revealed the jeweled orders blazing on his breast...
...which floats over from across the Atlantic has too long served as a text for every critic with a fondness for adornment by generality, and arguments in favour of compulsory chapel, decentralization, more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite of the fact that the most recent Oxford news doesn't prove much, critics may cherish it for occasions when the ointment of glorification is spread a bit too thick...
...cloak of unprecedented secrecy which veiled Monday's practice session for the University gridiron forces once again descended over Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. No definite information concerning the activities of the coaches and players within the well-guarded walls of the Stadium could be gleaned from the official spokesman after the workout, the next to last one before the final struggle of the season at New Haven Saturday...
...South Dakota-born George Bain Everitt was first accountant, then cloak-and-suitman. He went into the Encyclopedia Brittanica Corp., dropped it for the textile business. In 1921 he went to Montgomery Ward, becoming president in 1926. At forty-three he is representative of Chicago's clan of young, debonair, clubmen-executives...