Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allowed to have breakfast downstairs with her father & mother, the Duke and Duchess of York, and her grandmother, Queen Mary. Birthday presents from family & friends were hidden in closets and behind chairs. A large electric automobile from Mamma and Papa and a bicycle from Grandmamma were hard to conceal, but it took 20 minutes of scrabbling to uncover a gold-headed riding crop from His Majesty, "Uncle David." Later, Princess Elizabeth used the crop to thump the fat sides of her favorite white pony, Peggy. In the afternoon there was a children's party in the tiny playhouse, gift...
Debut. Unlike most cinemactresses, Shirley Temple does not conceal the date of her birth. It was April 23, 1929. Five weeks after the market crash, she uttered her first word: "Mama!" The next May she could waddle. She was a spindly child but neither sickly nor remarkable. At 3, she had measles. Soon afterward she was sent to the Meglin Dance Studio where...
...Indoor Athletic Building when the Crimson swordsmen came from behind to nose out the Eli fencers 14-13 for their first victory over the Blue in four years. Coach Grasson felt that the judging was prejudiced against his team and took no pains to conceal his emotions. Rene Peroy, Crimson mentor, refused to get excited about the meet and simply said "Grasson is always a very poor loser...
Asked for an explanation, Senator Black replied: "We've subpoenaed all telegrams of these gentlemen who conceal themselves behind organizations and groups in order to determine the policies of the nation behind a mask...
...into high relief the utter unreality of General Hagood's offense. He was not conducting an agitation. He was not forcing his opinions on Congress. On the contrary, he was speaking in private and by invitation to the very civil authorities from whom an officer ought to conceal none of his opinions...