Word: hide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Mussolini's speech is filled with arrogance, contradictions and vehemence, which attempt to hide the inner weakness of his argument...
...steel furnaces and all those dandy things we used to explore on Chemistry excursions. In fact the whole picture recalls those happy if undignified romps through founderies and sulphuric acid plants. We've wondered since how such industries could go on with all of First Year Chemistry playing hide-and-go-seek among the Bessemers...
General Kuo and his wife hastily disguised themselves as coolies and attempted to hide in a cellar. There they were seized by General Yang, a lieutenant of Super-Tuchun Chang. General Kuo's wife attempted to escape and was instantly and mercifully shot dead. For Kuo remained a harder fate. He watched while his dead wife's arms and head were cut off. Then his own legs were hacked from his body and as he swooned he was decapitated...
Last week the long-heralded composition, "Concerto in F" was played in Carnegie Hall; with Mr. Damrosch conducting, Mr. Gershwin at the piano, and all the fine fiddlers, horn-blowers and hide-thumpers of the Symphony Orchestra in attendance...
...villain and Nell Gwyn no better than she might have been, no more proof is needed for the theses that Borgia was an upstanding Christian gentleman, and Mistress Gwyn a cheerful creature with no harm in her at all. Thus these moderns display their lack of prejudice by becoming hide-bound on the unpopular side of any given question. Their purpose is clear enough. A customary treatment of Stevenson, for instance, would startle no one. The only thing to do is to reverse the point of view, whitewash villains and smear angels with lamp-black until all are reduced...