Word: concealments
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...honest man will make the proper returns anyhow, so will have no objections to having his returns scanned. It will prevent the dishonest man from making false returns, thereby impelling honest returns and increasing the revenues." To this Secretary Mellon rejoined: "With publicity of returns, however, the temptation to conceal income would be much greater, and I venture to say that with such a provision in the law, millions of dollars of income which would otherwise be reported will be concealed, to the great loss in revenue to the Government. Far from being the means of increasing revenue, publicity will...
...Hall without invitation." This breach of good manners in itself deserves some slight censure. But the entering was relatively unimportant "it was the leaving that really mattered. As a detail of history the young visitor levied contributions on his "various" hosts, to the grand total of approximately $150. To conceal nothing--Claverly Hall was robbed...
...write it, no one can object to his denying the fact," continued Mr. Vanderlip. The winner is under oath to conceal his identity...
...gamut of suffering which Mr. Sergel catalogues, it is only because their revolted stomachs bid them turn over the groaning pages to the more common unhappinesses that lie beyond. In particular he dwells on the mental anguish which Arlie Gelston, the heroine, goes through while she is endeavoring to conceal her misfortune from family and townsfolk. No detail is too gruesome for him; he fairly revels in the vivisection of her soul...
Probably nine-tenths of the audience had never seen Duse. When first she came along the little garden path at the foot of the towering painted mountains her appearance was startlingly unusual. A slight woman, her hair white, without a speck of make-up to conceal the wrinkles. Her clothes strangely simple. Her movements decisive, restrained and yet assured. Her hands, once the toast of all Europe, still stirring with their nervous eloquence. Her voice small, curiously musical...