Word: concealments
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...shall conceal his identity partly from compassion, but more, perhaps, because we do not know it), emerged from Massachusetts Hall muttering surprise that he should be given the key to his mailbox rather than the mailman...
...crowding pre-War Dublin piecemeal through the eye of a verbal needle, he was hailed as the largest literary giant Ireland had ever produced. Seeing a giant, however, is not necessarily believing in him: and Ulysses' gigantic size seemed, to some critics and many lay readers, to conceal a wizened point of view. Readers who are cajoled into the belief that all is big in Brobdignag will find Giant Joyce's Collected Poems an eye opener. For not only are his poems measly in number (50), they seem small potatoes-and with few eyes in them at that...
...this man is allowed to take a place upon the Supreme Bench of the land, after admitting by a silence that all his adroitness could not conceal last night, the worst of the charges levied against him, there will be an ineffaceable stain upon the Supreme Court and upon the country. And the President of the United States will be totally responsible for that stain...
...this man (Black) answer simple questions unless he has something to conceal?", was the way the Government 1 head opened his discussion of the moment's most interesting news...
...controversy moderately scandalous for them, but they handled it with their usual decorum and historical perspective. It was started by George L. Massy who wrote from Folkestone in Kent that he was "credibly informed that the reason some ladies stain their finger nails is in order to conceal traces of black blood, otherwise discernible there. Perhaps the knowledge of this may induce ladies not having black blood to refrain from the unsightly and unpleasing habit. It is understood that this habit arose in America where color lines are strictly drawn and traces of black blood must be concealed if possible...