Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...were first Lane Bryant and her husband, one Malsin, dead these four or five years. Miss Lane Bryant, dressmaker, made negligees for fat women; Mrs. Lane Bryant Malsin, dressmaker, made garments to "conceal the condition" [of ma- ternity]. Lane Bryant, Inc., with stores in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore and Chicago, make fashions "which slenderize and flatter your figure . . . sizes 36 to 58 bust...
...have almost succeeded in persuading the sheriff to stage the execution ahead of schedule, in time for the early editions, when the murderer, a meek little fellow, shoots his way out of jail. Hildy Johnson, the most agile of the newsgatherers, captures him by good luck and attempts to conceal him in a rolltop desk until he has had time to scoop the story...
...Hoover worked his way through Stanford by waiting on table at the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority house." So wrote Editor Chester W. Cleveland of the Magazine of Sigma Chi in an article published last fortnight (TIME, May 14). Editor Cleveland did not conceal the fact that he disapproved of Candidate Hoover because the latter was non-fraternity and anti-fraternity while in college...