Word: concealments
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...twisted in his seat and felt vaguely that Shaw must be hitting at him, just because Shaw was always hitting at him. One cannot blame them for wriggling, for when they weren't suffering for the actors. The actors didn't know their lines and took little pains to conceal the state of affairs from the audience. And the audience was far more distressed than the old stagers of the Repertory...
...crime is expiated." Premier Bethlen arose. The Deputies leaped to their feet and created such an uproar that Parliament had to be temporarily suspended. At length the Premier obtained a hearing. He spoke for three hours. At the end of that time the maxim, "Speech was given man to conceal his thoughts," had been well illustrated. Premier Bethlen obviously found it impossible to risk pinning the blame for the plot upon anybody-presumably because the guilty are all so extremely close to the Government. Amid repeated cries of "Resign! You are shielding forgers!" Count Bethlen proceeded merely to touch vaguely...
...title of the story was dreadful in its simplicity: "The Defeat of Alfonso." What iniquities might not that conceal! There was a drawing of a scowling man in a white jacket with his knee pressed on the stomach of a prostrate victim, into whose agonized countenance he was simultaneously thrusting some hideous instrument of torture. A third man, baldish, smiling dangerously, looked on. The caption sounded distinctly criminal. It read : " 'Go through his pockets,' said Ellicott, after a while. 'I've got him dead...
...baby was born in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The public that went to see it felt much as Benjamin Franklin did when, to conceal his misgivings, he said to a French balloonist who had urged him to ascend, "Newborn infants are singularly uninteresting...
...views on controversial questions instead of presenting the problem as a detached problem, and in allowing the discussion to wander from the approach of the topic to the heart of his course, out into generalities. Of course, the professor will not be able, and should not try, to conceal his own views, but he should expect his colleagues to confer with him when it appears that harm may come from classroom discussion...