Word: concealer
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Jackson was ill when Healy painted him. He tried to conceal his suffering while the work was in progress, apologized for not being a better sitter. When the painting was finished Jackson examined it and remarked: "I am satisfied, sir, that you stand at the head of your profession. I feel very much obliged to you, sir", for the great labor and care that you have been pleased to bestow upon it." Nine days later the old. general died...
...Enthusiastic. According to "Georges Escoulin" (a pen name said to conceal the identity of a well-known Catholic writer who has traveled in America), the chief difficulty of U.S. Roman Catholics is an inferiority complex. Because the church arrived late in the U.S., he says, the big problem for the immigrating Catholic was to get himself accepted. For this reason he has had to show, "and prove by his whole behavior, that. . . he is devoted to 'The American Way,' that he has adopted it, and will, in turn, get others to adopt it." He has had no easy...
Swiss Dummy. Switzerland's Leader, A.G. had been formed by Bata Sr. in 1931, said Justice Schreiber, for the "admitted purpose of concealing his own ownership of Bata companies and assets outside Czechoslovakia" to evade income taxes. To conceal his own ownership, he had turned the shares over to Muska, lifelong friend and trusted aide...
...Harvard has certainly nothing to conceal. To the best of our knowledge and belief, there are no members of the Communist Party on our staff. Furthermore, I feel certain that there has been and is no infiltration of Communistic doctrines into our teaching; and it is needless to say that Harvard is thoroughly opposed to the doctrines of the Communist Party...
...sister Fawzia does not try to defend his action, but shrugs the story off with: "It must be a joke-he can't really mean it." By censoring the Egyptian press and holding the threat of expulsion over foreign correspondents, the Egyptian government for years has tried to conceal Farouk's way of life and other noxious matter lying beneath Cairo's glitter. The King, however, will not cooperate in concealment; his private life is about as private as the Pyramids...