Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lying. His intellectual hauteur had grown somewhat to resemble Gene Tunney's when finally the devil appeared with promises of pleasure. In the first moment of action on the stage and one in which for an instant the enchantments of the underworld seemed real, Faust wrapped his cloak around him and flew with his companion through the dark air in search of gaudy cities and delight...
Mail Order. National Bellas Hess Co., with a $40,000,000 yearly retail mail order business, has bought Charles Williams Stores, Inc., with a $17,000,000 retail mail order business. Both headquarters are in Manhattan. National Bellas Hess is successor of the National Cloak & Suit...
Since no words can cloak the fact that Sir William is a protectionist and Mr. Churchill a free trader, that fundamental disagreement between them was dismissed jocularly by "Jix" thus: "I should like to point out that this is the first occasion I have spoken in public since I made one of my indiscreet [protectionist] speeches some months...
...swaggering name that savors of success was flung like a jaunty cloak, last week, around a strange, anomalous, new Cabinet formed by the Socialist Hermann Muller...
Died. Joseph Barondess, 60, famed Jewish philanthropist, pioneer fighter against "sweatshops," organizer of the potent Cloak Makers' Union, leader in the movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine; following an operation for goiter; in Manhattan...