Word: beclouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact, the absence of any definite link between President Vargas and the Integralista, or Brazilian Fascist Party, and the very fact that news dispatches declaring the new regime to be totalitarian are not censored, reenforce the impression that the Fascist scare is simply a clever smoke screen used to becloud the ruling party's real objective--continuation in office...
...foolish plan [is] a real danger to the established neutrality policy of this nation. The unfortunate war victims . . . might easily be used for propaganda purposes by groups actively seeking sympathy for the Communist-Socialist regime of the Madrid-Valencia government. This crafty scheme is clearly an attempt to becloud an issue the truth of which Americans are at last learning, namely, that the Soviet-supported 'Loyalist' regime, in order to deceive the world of its real anti-Christian objective, is trying to make out that Franco's government is anti-Catholic because the Rebels are seeking...
...things becloud the future of these companies: 1) sales resistance to machine-made homes, 2) opposition from organized labor. The powerful building trades' unions glower darkly at houses that can be put up with fewer plasterers, carpenters, roofers, painters and plumbers. Probable result: prefabricated houses will be pushed and developed from outside the building trades by big electrical corporations, plumbing, steel, cement, and wallboard companies who see a fat, new market for their wares...
...part in political activities, lobbying and agitating on various issues. College men however, who are destined some day to take over the reins of government, may use their undergraduate days to far better advantage in sideline preparation on major problems than in front-rank agitation on minor questions that becloud...
...first few pages of "John Galsworthy" give evidence of serious "introduction trouble," an ill not uncommon among thesis writers. These pages say very turgidly much that there is no need to say, and thus becloud the necessary paragraphs. It would be unfortunate, though, if they should keep anyone from reading this otherwise admirable study...