Word: conceals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jest,* audiences are beginning to realize that Lon Chaney stands on a pedestal of Hollywood, the one actor dedicated to the serious grotesque. His most recent incarnation is Alonzo, armless wonder of a traveling circus. In reality a full-bodied man, Alonzo straps himself into deformity in order to conceal from a hounding police that the double-thumbed hand identified with a notorious murder is his own. So accustomed is he to eating, drinking, smoking with his toes, that even when free from the straps, his hands dangle idle. Later, after being provoked to a second murder, he amputates...
...time to strike the shackles from the shrinking attitude of the medical profession, not only toward the public espousal of educational programs, but from its attitude toward the lay press, the radio and the great assemblies of truth seeking people. The physician has no right to conceal from non-medical readers the great body of news of the higher importance which is his to communicate...
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...