Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictatorships, based on secret police and firing squads, have been set up in many lands. The noblest words that can issue from the mouth of man have been prostituted and the noblest sentiments of the heart of man have been played upon by propaganda to conceal the simple truth: that those dictatorships are tyrannies imposing their dogmas on an enslaved people...
Responding to their sense of propriety, pressagents for Producer Goldwyn, instead of trying to conceal these goings-on, promptly announced them as a record...
...culture, Editors Eugene Jolas and Elliot Harold Paul printed in 1927 the first fragments of great James Joyce's work in gibberish, provisionally titled Work in Progress, transition writers, uncertain of society's appreciation of their real personalities, thereupon took over Joyce's experimental style to conceal murky thinking behind an inscrutable jabberwocky...
...Fundamentalist geared for action. Dr. John Gresham Machen professes to believe he is persecuted by a "Modernist Machine" in power in the church. In his Fundamentalist Presbyterian, Guardian last fortnight Fundamentalist Machen warned his disciples not to be deceived at the General Assembly by the way the Machine would "conceal the real issues" by limitation of debate, parliamentary bullying from the moderator's chair, celebrating the Lord's Supper, reciting the Apostles' Creed, prayer ("When misused to shelve important issues or gain an unfair advantage over opponents in debate, it is a very objectionable thing") and singing...
Thirty-niners were beginning to think of forty-niners yesterday, when a week of mysterious drilling about the yard was capped by the sudden appearance of a great pit in front of Hollis Hall. Some characters were even seen snooping about with divining rods or trying to conceal large, empty potato sacks. One was studying the daily quotation on gold in the Wall Street Journal...