Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Holy rites of celebration would be secretly performed in the six-spired Mormon Temple, open only to Mormon church-members in good standing (i.e., approved as moral and right-minded by their local pastors-'"bishops"), and thus long supposed by superstitious Gentiles* to conceal queer ceremonies of polygamous import. But Mormonism is by no means merely a closeted, holy matter. It is also a hard-headed economic system and the communicants are bustling, practical, prosperous. Always have non-Mormons been welcomed to services and organ recitals in the great domed Tabernacle (seating capacity 10,000) just behind the Temple...
Perhaps the only indefinite section of the questionnaire is that in which the voter may conceal various sins from dislike of alcoholic beverages to difficulty in striking a bargain with the local bootleggers under the guise of "Personal Taste". Such a situation is will nigh unavoidable and it is of secondary importance anyway. The major virtue of the ballot lies into its adaptability to various types of colleges, a fact illustrated by the adoption of its essential simplicity by many of the newspapers cooperating in the conducting of polls elsewhere...
...first two acts Hope Williams is called upon to do little but deliver Mr. Stewart's prolific witticisms, patterned after the jibes which people make at each other when they are slightly tired. She makes them with self-assurance which a more expert player would know how to conceal. They are very good jibes and she is not essential to their success. In the last act, when the scene demands emotional pliancy, you realize that while she has a definite, tart personality, she is not an actress. Robert Williams, as the boy who had once refused her affection, returns...
...Extension of padlock injunctions to reach property owners who conceal themselves from the court...