Word: concealer
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...clues are spread out before the reader with commendable fairness, but in baffling number. Two plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds of the way through the book does the writer find it necessary to conceal from the reader the surmises in the detective's mind. The writing is workman like ; only the proofreading is slipshod...
...time: a little figure in the foreground, and behind, in chiaroscuro, ships, crowds, cannon, marching men. In the interests of his characters, he has pried with a candle into many dusty cupboards. He is witty without being glib, and schooled in that subtlest accomplishment of scholarship-the ability to conceal his labor...
Constitution: "Having made this statement, I shall not in any way attempt to conceal my inner conviction that the present German Constitution is not my ideal and that some parts thereof demand reform...
...allegedly arranged, he was to become President after Calles. Then, with peculiar suddenness, de la Huerta rocked the revolutionary cradle of Mexico?the triumvirate was shattered; and, in its ruins, de la Huerta found his political grave. Only one man was left to succeed Obregon; nor did Obregon conceal his satisfaction; for the man was Calles, his friend, his protégé, his faithful comrade-in-arms...
...written in 1881. The author was known as a keen student of the adolescent girl in all her complexities and vicissitudes. He shows her manner of laughing, sometimes mocking, sometimes subdued; he pictures her amiable in her troubles, and proud in her regrets. He shows how she attempts to conceal her preferences, then how she betrays herself, blushes, and becomes care-free and dreamy when love knocks at the door...