Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones, 48, of Palm Springs, Calif. disguises the fact that he is one of the country's most prolific writers for the pulp press by a variety of pseudonyms. Far harder to conceal is his amazing family. Last March Mrs. Bedford-Jones II found herself in Chicago being sued for $200,000 for alienation of affections by Mrs. Bedford-Jones I. Taking the stand for her stepmother, Daughter Helen Bedford-Jones, 20, testified as follows against her mother...
...course, Alice archly explains that she was going in to hire a secretary for her father. As successful, in a much broader part, is oldtime Actor Fred Stone, making his first important cinema appearance as Alice's likeable, devoted father, puzzled and uneasy as he tries to conceal from himself the assurance which her unhappiness gives him that he has made a failure of his life. Minor performances by Fred MacMurray as Alice's young man, Ann Shoemaker as her mother, and Frank Albertson as her brother are as good as they could be. The direction of George...
...issued in the Texas courts. All told, AAA found itself facing 705 court challenges, which meant that 705 processors were eager to maintain before the law that the Christmas gifts farmers have been getting do not come from Santa Claus, that processing "taxes" are but white whiskers to conceal the fact that one group of citizens are putting thieving hands into the pockets of another group...
...blond Dutch anthropologist named H. M. Dernelot Moens was put on the stand by Maitre Torres to testify for Miss Warner. He swore that, upon look-ing closely, he could not see any clothes on the defendant nor, for that matter, could he see what clothes were supposed to conceal...
President Roosevelt was at no pains to conceal his displeasure over this threat to one of his pet reforms. And on his side he has all investment bankers, who have no desire to share their current prosperity. However, some Washington quidnuncs suspected that the underwriting section might have been inserted for no other reason than to have something to throw out in the Course of final bargaining between the House and Senate...