Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Cardinal Logue could laugh heartily. Once, examining a group of tradesmen for confirmation, he asked whether it would not be a sin to conceal the defects of a donkey to a prospective purchaser...
...Mass of finest Hay conceal'd from sight...
...permitted overhanging mustaches to make them look as if their happiness had been wrecked, but not always in an endeavor to conceal mismated teeth...