Word: concealing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night Must Fall (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer). Any moving picture in which the hero is an egocentric murderer and in which the action consists of his efforts to conceal one brutal crime while preparing for another, comes under the head of a daring cinematic experiment. Any picture in which Robert Montgomery, whose previous contribution to the screen has been a seven-year marathon of ingenuous charm, gives a first-rate performance in a difficult role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London...
...based on an actual "scandale amourouse" in pre-war Vionna, centers around a handsome artist who does sketches for the less respectable magazines. His portrait of an indiscreet but fashionable lady, clad only in a muff and a mask, is published by mistake, and all Vienna is agog. To conceal her identity, he invents a name...
Easter Sunday blew wintry cold in New York. Chilled photographers of the Fifth Avenue fashion parade swung their cameras in despair at such finery as winter overcoats did not conceal. Managing editors by mid-afternoon were groaning over the results, wondering what they could scrape up to decorate Monday morning's paper. At 3: 3O they knew...
...clothing in general should be of such quality and quantity as to conceal rather than reveal the form and the person of the wearer...
Efforts to conceal the historic hostility of General Motors towards unionized labor are becoming ever more futile. The workers have occupied the plants because they have no other weapon for bargaining. If Mr. Sloan would only be honest enough to concede this point, negotiations would be much easier for himself, Mr. Lewis, Secretary Perkins, and every one else concerned...