Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a baby," not even the iceman, who complains euphemistically of his fiancee's infidelity: "While I was trying desperately to keep the wolf from the door, the stork flies in the window." Actress Davies appears in the role of Joyce Stanton who, while trying to conceal the pregnancy of the iceman's fiancee, causes herself to be suspected of a similar predicament. She is engaged to an elderly banker but more interested in one of his clerks. When both are discouraged by rumors of her misbehavior, she marries the family solicitor who has behaved more generously...
...Points (First National). Based on last summer's murder of Alfred "Jake" Lingle, racketeer-reporter for the Chicago Tribune, this picture presents Richard Barthelmess as a cool but callow newshawk who grows rich by blackmailing gangsters. Disappointed in the rewards consequent upon his first scoop, the reporter offers to conceal further news of illegal enterprises if their promoters share the profits with him. When another reporter gets the story of a gangland gambling layout, gangsters blame the racketeer-reporter, perforate him. Routine exaggerations?of a hardboiled city editor, a thundering "Big Guy''?combine to make The Finger Points...
England's Sitwell trio (Osbert, Edith, Sacheverell), sophisticated rather than passionate poets, conceal their artistry beneath Sitwellian artificiality that annoys many a plain person, delights their devotees and themselves. But occasionally, as in Brother Osbert's Dumb-Animal stories, humanity cracks the super-Etonian veneer, sentiment overcomes even a Sitwell and enables him to communicate with...
...local chambers of commerce and the Chicago Association of Commerce all have doubted this explanation. But up to last week they had failed to find the actual means by which Black Hawk Finance finances itself. "Let them investigate," shouted florid Financier Benham to visitors. "I have nothing to conceal...
...agreement with the protest cannot conceal the fact that it is still a protest against the whole spirit of the time, which can express itself only through the instrumentalities that are natural to it. Anachronisms cannot be maintained even by universities, and the Yale, say, of 1850, when a paternal president gathered his little group of faculty and scholars about him under the New Haven elms and discoursed wisdom, is beyond recovery. What, of course, can be done is to adjust the best that was in the old to the conditions of the new. In this particular question it seems...