Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolt to be fomented by Spain and guided by Mussolini under his title of Defender of Islam. This was nonsense. Spaniards and Moslems have been enemies since the 8th Century. The talk about an Arab revolt was designed either to cover a real Axis plan involving Spain or to conceal the failure of the Axis and El Cunadissimo to sell Brother-in-Law Franco...
...want Hitlerism in this country. Has everybody in Washington gone hysterical?" "Just think how many young boys' careers will be ruined. This means a year out of their lives." Socialite Mrs. Richard Newton, of Water Mill, L. I., informed the Senator that conscription was camouflage to conceal the Third Term issue. Dr. C. F. Aked (D.D., LL.D., Litt.D.), of Los Angeles, telegraphed: "I thank God for your noble fight against . . death dealing systems of continental Europe where conscription means both syphilis and slavery." Banker John M. Johnston Jr. of Wayne, Pa. objected to having the normal course...
...Taken pains to conceal his identity from his neighbors in Scarsdale, and on some occasions had used the name of Webster...
...Westrick, who had made the mistake of trying to conceal his identity and whereabouts (apparently for the honest reason that he was harassed by telephone calls from angry anti-Nazis), hurried to Manhattan's motor vehicle bureau (in a taxi) to explain his license applications. He denied that he had lost a leg in World War I, admitted he had lost a foot. He denied that he had told a falsehood in naming an engineer of Texas Corp. (his client) as his employer, but admitted he had failed to notify the bureau when he moved to Scarsdale. He also...
...hardboiled eggs. He is a cheese connoisseur, but likes ice cream to the point of second helpings. He honestly likes hot dogs. One Scotch highball at teatime is his usual ration, but on a night out he ups that limit: often at banquets the flower vases before his place conceal as many as four Old-Fashioneds, which he downs before one can say "Jack Garner...