Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FRANKNESS is an especial merit of Professor Matthiessen's book. Intimately acquainted with the man and his work, Professor Matthiessen makes no attempts to conceal the fact that he is attorney for the defence, and he rests his case boldly on the actual performance of Eliot as poet and as critic. He does not claim, like most advocates, to be in sole possession of the whole truth, so his tone is never arrogant or impatient; the only handicap with which his advocacy and enthusiasm have encumbered him is the tendency to deduce universal 'laws' of poetry from the practice...
...twice as large. When Hemingway traveled without his guide into wilder country to bag a kudu the real object of the hunt, Karl shot a much nobler specimen almost without effort. Since Green Hills of Africa is an attempt to write "an absolutely true book." Hemingway does not conceal his acute jealousy of Karl, or his bitter disappointment when each of his achievements was bettered. Since the book is also an experiment "to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can ... compete with a work of the imagination...
...retired traveling salesman, a farmer and a Negro waiter named George W. Fullerton. Among the defendants, the jurors observed President Ned Depinet of RKO Distributing Corp., President George Schaefer of Paramount Pictures Distributing Co. and Warner Brothers' sleek little President Harry Warner who found it hard to conceal his chagrin when excited Lawyer Reed mistook his hat, which had fallen on the floor, for a spittoon, used it accordingly...
Thereafter, the comedy in The Goose and the Gander consists of the efforts of the guests at the lodge to conceal their identities. The picture's suspense is contributed by the jewel thieves' attempts to retrieve their swag. Its charm resides in the fact that George Brent can wrinkle his nose whereas Kay Francis cannot pronounce "r." Good shot: a bedazzled police chief (Spencer Charters) trying to make the company at the lodge explain what they...
Stormed SEC: "In this 'mutual' enterprise, profits go to promoters and advisers in the ratio of approximately 60% and to the investing 'bondholders' in the ratio of approximately 40%! No array of locally prominent names should be allowed to conceal these facts...