Word: blush
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Fear and excitement may make a man blush, sweat, turn pale, run a high blood pressure or faint-or he may just keep a poker face. But under emotional stress, no man, however impassive, can keep his finger tips from palpitating. To A.M.A. conventioneers two young Tulane Medical School doctors exhibited a machine that indicates the state of a man's emotions by "listening" to his finger tips...
masks my face Else might I blush, perchance
...Miss McDuff's drawers become so excruciatingly annoying that at last debacle, when the sweet young thing is dancing in the arms of the handsome teacher at the Senior Ball, and the blasted things come loose for the last time, several unhappy swains in the audience were seen to blush crimson, cry out and run from the theatre...
...woman, with crinkly brown hair, wide eyes and billowing chins. She lumbered among tier disciples in a dirty wrapper, fumbling endlessly in the tobacco pouch from which she rolled her cigarets. Again & again she was caught red-handed in chicaneries that would have made a carnival rifter blush...
...analyzed the lure. It ought to be sex, but one visit makes that doubtful. Whatever it is, Harvard-men meet with Boston on common ground at the Old Howard--leer almost as luridly at the flesh as do the natives, shudder with them at the chorus, and blush a slightly darker shade of pink at the comedians...