Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prohibition tell us that the lamp of liberty burns but dimly in our land. However that may be, it burns, and we must guard what light there is, guard what remains of our old right, the freedom of the press. That Liberty's torch be not smothered by the cloak of Fear, we must stand our ground and be our own censors...
...HAWK-Robert W. Chambers-Appleton ($2.00). For years Author Chambers has dominated the realm of high romance. His present flyleaf lists two columns of unaccountably sound-sellers, many of which have dealt with cloak and sword, picturesque oaths and spirited ladies. Louis XIV being his favorite monarch, he now weaves around this "Sun King's" favorite hunting companion a somewhat laborious tale of French colonization in Quebec, complete with bloody Indian skirmishes and pious persecution of heretics. As for love interest, 8-year-old Countess Palladine, the sole survivor of a lurid Turkish massacre, is rescued thrillingly...
Dwarfed only by the Divine Presence, stood His Majesty, George V. King and Emperor, with two sturdy pages to support his long crimson and white train. At one side of the Altar sat Her Majesty, Mary, Queen and Empress, clad in a long, shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve...
Dracula-VAMPIRE CRAWLS WALLS IN CLOAK, BITES GIRL, Is SLAIN...
...dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal his onetime relations with a lady whom he had loved illicitly or allow the brother...