Word: hid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...degrees of men who have walked the earth the Vagabond is drawn most to those monks and minor canons who hid beneath their flowing robes (or displayed about their flowing bowls) a rare humor, boundless Joie de vivre, and a fine disdain for official authority...
...short on "brass," had done things as good in his day. His book touches on some of them, but by no means all. One day he and a man named Duff teamed to get a ship news shot of the elder Morgan, notoriously hostile to cameramen. Duff hid behind a ventilator. Jack Price, as decoy, waited until Banker Morgan, pacing the deck, came alongside the ventilator. Then he leaped into Morgan's path, focussing his camera. Irate Banker Morgan brandished his cane, while Confederate Duff, unseen, sniped a perfect shot, later shared with Price...
...disgruntled newsdealer, two strangers and a posse made their way to a farmhouse near Newton, N. J. one evening last week. The strangers and the posse hid while the newsdealer asked for "Mr. Toomer,'' who came out on the porch. While the dealer angrily demanded that Toomer pay him for supplying all the Manhattan newspapers for the past two weeks, the strangers and posse appeared, surrounded Mr. Toomer, held him fast. In Mr. Toomer's pocket was found a .38 revolver. The strangers soon identified themselves as detectives and Toomer admitted that he was notorious Arthur Barry...
...same amazingly unfeeling director who overworked the dramatic talents of Miss Davies hid his other talents to an appalling degree. Robert Montgomery, of happy "Private Lives" fame is choked with hardly a witty speech and Jimmy Durante displays himself so rarely that one wonders of his contract expired before the shots were all taken, Zazu Pitts, as Gertie and Sidney Toler, as Zazu's husband are likewise exasperatingly withheld from the public gaze. It does not, however, fellow that the follies of the director should prevent the tired student from seeing "Bloudie of the Follies" with that free ticket...
...government did not take this lying down. Within an hour three motors full of gunmen cornered the car of Dr. Ricardo Dolz, an anti-Machado leader and rector of the National University, and attempted to shoot him down. Their aim was poor. Blue with fright. Dr. Dolz escaped and hid in the Uruguayan Legation where he was promptly joined by another opposition leader, Carlos Manuel de la Cruz...