Word: concealments
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Counterblast. If Il Duce was mobilizing Albania against Jugoslavia, he took shrewd measures to cover his tracks and conceal his plans. In London, Berlin, the Italian Ambassadors ostentatiously informed the British and German governments, likewise the press, that Jugoslavia was rapidly mobilizing last week against Albania; but that the Italian Government would bend its every effort toward peace...
...every way, but they now call it arthritis. . . . I have been in Johns Hopkins Hospital since the latter part of December. . . . If people want to transact business with me and insist upon doing so at Johns Hopkins Hospital, I will be simply compelled to move elsewhere and conceal my location until I can force everyone to take up his business matters through my office [60 Wall St., New York City; he is at Battle Creek, Mich...
Significance. Dictator Carlos Ibanez shrewdly reckoned that the Great Powers would see "poetic justice" in his exile of Chilean "Reds" to an isle which they can make as "Red" as they please. An admirable scheme! But who are these Chilean "Reds" that Dictator Ibanez strove to conceal...
...Yale man to Princeton men, I ask you, is this fair? She writes: "I might make the point that a Harvard man always tried to conceal his college and a Yale man to exploit it"--and again "A Yale man would make me feel that his conversation was the most interesting thing in the world; a Harvard man as if my conversation was the most interesting thing in the world...
...believe it! If a man is a born bore no college in the world can make him a social success. And if a Harvard man attempts to conceal the fact that he is a Harvard man from his dinner companion of the fair sex. I'm sure every undergraduate at Princeton will agree with me that modesty is not his only reason for doing...