Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will remain in the New York area for at least four or five years, whatever permanent site is finally chosen, Russia's Andrei Gromyko leased a five-story apartment building, ancient but refurbished, on West 88th Street, in a rather dowdy neighborhood. A woman, who probably remembered a cloak-&-dagger film called The House on 92nd Street (four blocks north), expressed audible worry lest the Russians fabricate atomic bombs in the basement. ¶ The Argentine envoys, who arrived early and ensconced themselves at the Waldorf-Astoria, excited the envy of other Latin American delegations unable to find lodgings...
...Deck. Emanuel's cloak-&-dagger manner and his name (his mother merely liked the name Victor, had no thought of Italy's ex-King) have caused some to suspect him of having an exotic foreign background. Actually, V.E. is as endemically American as flapjacks and maple syrup. He was born in Dayton, the son of a wealthy utilities man. It was a wonderful time and place to grow up in. Only two doors away Charles F. Kettering was working on a magical invention that would start autos automatically; Orville Wright skittered around in one of the first airplanes...
...Donovan. Manhattan Lawyer Donovan (onetime Assistant U.S. Attorney General) had unusual assets for vote appeal: a nickname ("Wild Bill," from his football days at Columbia University) ; fame as a World War I hero (the Congressional Medal of Honor) and distinction in World War II as head of the cloak-and-dagger Office of Strategic Services...
...year old last week, the Atomic Age was offered, as one of its birthday presents, Atomic Power!, the first moving picture to portray it not as cloak-&-Geiger-counter melodrama but as deadly serious historical fact. MARCH OF TIME, with the cooperation of 20-odd scientists, who appear in the picture, has retraced and re-enacted the main publishable stages in its cause and towards its possible cure. The motion in charts and animation makes newly graphic the basic principles of fission; shots heretofore unreleased to the screen suggest some of the effects, including, as one emblem or symbol more...
Charles Sparks Thomas is a prosperous Los Angeles cloak-&-suit merchant. He has never run for office or made a political speech, and never wants to. Until a few months ago, his closest brush with politics was a matter of geography; he was born next door to Bess Truman's girlhood home in Independence, Mo., 48 years...