Word: concealments
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...story of a great lady, married to a respectable lord, and trying (out of noble motives) to conceal a long-past love affair. She is unaware that her illicit child still lives to commemorate her indiscretions...
...mention beauty, intensely endears her to at least two of the boarders - one of them idle-rich, and pathetically eager to be of small services; the other poor, but Scotch and ambitious. The triangle is pulled awry by the affairs of the house - one boarder blackballs another to conceal a theft and a clandestine love affair. But it all, of course, turns out nicely...
...daily" came at a particularly unfortunate time. On the day before Yale sends an army into the field to debate the qualifications of the two major presidential candidates, treason is found at the very heart of the home garrison. Even the modest veiling with a dash is insufficient to conceal the glaring weakness of undergraduate support tendered the Yale men on the eve of battle. Those who know the real story behind the debaters appearances tonight, will have trouble in back the emotion sure to be evoked by this latest "Laugh Clown" drama. The home fires are burning vigorously enough...
...Chicago, Governor Smith retorted: "If it is a Chinese puzzle to me with all my experience in diving into governmental figures running over a quarter of a century, what must it be to the fellow on the sidewalk? . . . I frankly admit it is a Chinese puzzle. I do not conceal it. And he [Secretary Mellon] knows...
...rival institution. They will be respectable. Those who cultivate them will no longer be despised; they will be admired. On the day when the London newsboys are heard shouting "Oriental Languages "Result!" or "Natural Philosophy Winners!" a new era will have begun. No athlete will any longer conceal his possession of a good brain and a taste for reading. No student need slink apologetically across the quad, feeling himself useless to his college and his university. No publisher or theatrical manager will dare to use "intellectual" as a term of reproach; and no smart, uneducated worldling will sneer...