Word: daggers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems simple enough for the administration to set up one central collecting agency, and junk the host of regional depots that make the job of tracking down missing property worthy of cloak-and-dagger outfit. Such a move would not only be a blessing for the careless undergraduates, but sensible and efficient from an administrative point of view...
...recent, I wish to deny, categorically, membership in the League for Reaction, and participation in any sort of HYRC "cloak and dagger" activity for which the various extraordinary schemes are suggested...
Fisher also attacked the "Machiavellian atmosphere" of the HYRC. He referred to a "Cloak and Dagger Department" (headed by Arthur W. Bingham '51) which, he said, at various times had considered 1) wrecking the NSA, 2) packing the Student Council, 3) infiltrating into the Liberal Union, 4) smearing candidates as Communists, and 5) printing birth control leaflets and distributing them under the name of prominent NSA officers in order to cause dissension between those officers and the Catholic schools...
Since India surrounds Hyderabad, Patel and Nehru could probably make good their threat. The Nizam, however, had a counter-threat. A dagger-eyed little man named Kasim Razvi calmly threatened to protect Hyderabad by starting another series of India-wide communal massacres...
...certainly no Lubitsch trick that the lush countess, who at one point considers planting a dagger in her Hungarian's back, ends by dragging him briskly off to say "I do" to a priest, while snowflakes flutter past the window. The "nice-kid-after-all" formula is what the Grable public loves, and that is what it gets...