Word: hidding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lion roared legally last week; a mouse hid defiantly behind its lawyers. The Crowell Publishing Co. sued the Italian Monthly Co., Inc., seeking to enjoin them from printing across the cover of their new magazine The New American. The lion complains this title might be confused with The American Magazine, giant of 2,162,252 circulation. The mouse doubts it; seeks chiefly to stimulate Italian Americans. The new magazine is soberly manufactured; contains writings of Benedetto Croce, Margaret Widdemer...
...Next, bulking solidly behind the President, was Secretary Herbert Clark Hoover (Commerce) who casually plunged each hand into a trouser pocket (without brushing his coat back) and squinted pleasantly. Secretary William M. Jardine (Agriculture), baldest Cabinet member, put his right hand in his trouser pocket (with coat swung back), hid his left hand behind him and gazed seriously, straight ahead. Secretary Hubert Work (Interior), but for whose mustache and Secretary Mellon's this would be the first clean-shaven Cabinet in U. S. history, frowned quizzically and held something in his hands behind Attorney General Sargent's head...
...that her husband had sent him to give her a physical examination. She submitted to it. Said the man: "Your circulation is very poor. I'm afraid you'll have to take an extra hot bath before I can make a thoroughly satisfactory examination." Mrs. Sagerman hid her $1,000 engagement ring and $19.40 under a pillow. When she came from the bath, money, ring & doctor were gone. "He was a fake!" cried she angrily to police. Other Bronx women, made bold by her complaint, admitted that the rascal had duped them similarly...
...Ephesus, led by Professor Keil of Vienna, diggers located what they guessed were the labyrinthine catacombs wherein the seven Christians of about 250 A. D., who were later called the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, hid from persecution, were sealed in by their pursuers and miraculously awoke 200 years later. They also found fragments of the earliest city of Ephesus (10th Century B. C.) with traces of Kybele, the locality's particular version of the divine matriarch common to many religions in the Mediterranean Basin before the spread of the sacrificial Son-of-God form of religion...
Last week immigration inspectors in Los Angeles heard that ten Chinese immigration-law evaders were being smuggled over the Mexican border in airplanes. Hastening to the Eagle airport, landing field near Los Angeles, they hid in the weeds and bushes, waiting. Toward dawn three airplanes arrived. Before the first to land had come to a full stop, officials ran forward with drawn guns. According to their version, the aviator attempted to take to the air, whereupon they fired, killed the aviator, captured the two other pilots, found no Chinese. In the running gear of the planes were tangled bunches...