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...Giuliano did one thing to insure his immortality. Once, while visiting his brother the Pope, he donned a gold hair net, black biretta, grey-green and furry cloak, scarlet vest. In this attire he climbed to an upper chamber of the Vatican palace (through a window could be seen the squat turret of Castle St. Angelo), and there sat for the popular painter, Raphael Sanzio. Raphael was then in his prime, his original talents reinforced by much critical study of Masaccio, da Vinci, Michelangelo, Bartolommeo. He painted Giuliano with the grace and color befitting even a mediocre Medici...
...rebel publicity bureau in Manhattan's Hotel Pennsylvania issued a pronouncement stating that, "The present occupant of the Mexican Presidency has the power of a hypnotized rabbit. He is purely and simply another cloak in the mysterious and diversified wardrobe of Calles...
Prospering, expanding, Lane Bryant, Inc. last week announced the purchase of Associated Apparel Stores, holding company for the Newman & Benton chain of eleven cloak and suit establishments; have also bought the Spies Store, Newark, and plan soon to open stores in Washington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati. It is intended that the Bryant chain shall eventually include no less than 100 service stations for the stout. The present Bryant system does an annual business of about $15,000,000, some 40% by mail...
Senators, strolling in, took front-row seats. Senator Curtis went for a stroll in the Capitol grounds. His runner-up, Senator Robinson of Arkansas, dallied in the vacant Senate cloak room. Four tellers-California's Shortridge and Utah's King for the Senate; Alabama's Jeffers and Massachusetts' Gifford for the House-ranged themselves importantly before the rostrum. The boxes were unlocked. To Mr. Jeffers was handed the first envelope. He broke the red registry seal and announced...
...Roberts is right, there are a great many things wrong with Harvard. The traditional atmosphere is a take, the College is over-infested with a queer specimen called a "dean," Harvard men are enthusiastically indifferent and "run screaming" when attempts are made to penetrate this false cloak of self-consciousness, the names of all clubs are asinine, the College is run by temperamental Student Council Reports, graduate school students are social pariahs because they have lost "the true Harvard bloom", and, most significant of all, the "cozy collegetts" (Mr. Roberts' nomenclature for the units of the House plan) constitute...