Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road to industrial peace lies not in weakening bus in strengthening unions. Union "responsibility" is a worthy goal if the term means eliminating the racketeering and undemocratic practices that are found in some unions; but a drive for "responsibility" is too often used to cloak a drive to weaken or climinate all unions. The legislation now being considered by Congress will not remove the causes of labor disputes--a fact that will become all too evident if the laws being contemplated are enacted. Collective bargaining stands as the only way of settling labor disputes--bargaining between equals...
...owned a million-dollar-a-year business, but he was 65, and knew that he was too sick to run it any longer. So Brooklynite Morris Hirshfield gave up the E. Z. Walk Mfg. Co. (boudoir slippers), as he had once given up his cloak & suit business. He was free to paint at last...
Twelve lovely aspirant ingenues clothed themselves in a green cloak of envy at Sanders Theatre yesterday, as Mendy Weisgal '45, 1G of the Vets' Workshop proudly strapped on medieval armor in an attempt to grant George Bernard Shaw's telegraphed desire for a masculine Saint Joan...
...Madeleine (20th Century-Fox) is the third spy thriller to be culled from the wartime hush-hush files of the Office of Strategic Services. This one bests both its predecessors (Paramount's O.S.S., Warner's Cloak & Dagger) by a wide margin. In fact, it is as good, nerve-racking fun as any spy chase since The House on 92nd Street, which was worked on by the same competent team (Producer Louis de Rochemont, Director Henry Hathaway, Writer John Monks...
...takes his cloak and we walked together down till we came pretty near home, when I saw my mother in the street with another woman. . . . My mother, spying of us, says to the other woman, 'Here come Master Debase with a Fleming. It may be they may bring some news of Ned, she little knowing I was he. The old man bid me say nothing, he being pleased at the conceit [joke]. When we came to my mother, she looked on me, but knew me not, but asked the old man if he could tell no news...