Word: concealer
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...gentleman. Certainly no man in college, if he possesses a spark of college feeling, would be offended by a simple request to subscribe to the university crew. We can assure the perpetrator of the deed that if his name - which he had the cowardice to conceal - shall ever be made known, he will meet with merited contempt from all his fellow-students...
...fact that both colleges only wish to row a fair and gentlemanly race, which the diplomatic correspondence of the last two months seems to have endeavored to conceal, at once became evident when the representatives of the colleges met. The evident fairness of the settlement of the question about the method of starting cannot fail to commend it to every one. To start with the sterns of the shells even and to judge by the bows at the finish, would simply make our course about five feet shorter than Harvard's - we do not wonder that they objected. - [Record...
...duties Mr. Taussig explained to be as follows: They weigh heavier on the cheaper than the better class of goods made of the same material; although prices rise and fall, the amount of duties remains the same, so that the per cent is continually varying; they are used to conceal the real weight of the duty from those who are unacquainted with the values of the dutiable articles. The ad valorem duties are theoretically more equal and just, but yet the tendency of all countries is to drop them. The faults found are: The difficulty of correct judgment by custom...
...something of importance were momentarily expected to take place. Mrs. Butterfield, who was still at her toilet table arranging a bit of Spanish lace about her neck, was being put to considerable anxiety in her endeavor to hide her rather prominent Adam's apple and at the same time conceal the neck of her dress which was made to wear with a collar and was not meant to be seen. After she had managed to effect her purpose with a considerable outlay of pins, her looking-glass showed her the necessity of another application of the bit of chamois skin...
...like to study faces, particularly feminine faces of about eighteen. Accordingly, while to conceal my designs I pretended to be looking intently at the fireplace, and remarked that I thought open fires much more cheerful than kerosene stoves, I was in reality directing my gaze in a sort of circuitous way upon her features...