Word: daggerisms
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...Canadian spy melodrama labored into the last act. Five months after it started to probe the cloak & dagger activities of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, the Royal Commission on Espionage last week summed it all up in a fourth and final report. All told, it had uncloaked 17 Soviet Embassy officials, and charged them with spying in Canada...
...news sensation lasts longer than one day, the Paris press calls it an affaire. By last week the disappearance from France of Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, was firmly established as I'affaire Mufti. The man himself was a character straight out of a cloak-&-dagger novel...
...gobbled and grazed where the masters once trod. Last week the Augusta National Golf Club was open again. The dream golf course outside Augusta, Ga., built by and for Bobby Jones, had so much botanical beauty about that each hole had a flowery name (Flowering Peach, Yellow Jasmine, Spanish Dagger, Azalea). Bobby Jones, in semiretirement, played his one tournament a year there against masters and past masters only. This time 50 crack golfers were there-and Bobby, now 44, was back...
...Look Now, But ... In the wake of secrecy came such cloak-&-dagger speculation as the Dominion had never known. It spouted wherever people gathered. Headlines and stories dripped hysteria...
...Hollywood, where every sleeve holds a concealed dagger, producers were more than usually wary. On top of processing scads of mystery pictures and several hush-hush mellers about the OSS, Hollywood had a cloak-&-dagger drama of its own: Who will produce the first big atom-bomb picture...