Word: hide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enemy was supposed to be slinking behind some innocent looking isle, hidden behind a veil of mist, when the fleet poured out of Pearl Harbor in a sortie. But there wasn't any enemy, and there wasn't any mist to hide him-it was a perfect day. The fleet was only partly in Pearl Harbor because the harbor needs dredging before the heavy battleships can enter...
CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA ? Shaw comedy wherein a flapper Cleopatra plays verbal hide-and-seek with a superannuated Caesar...
...LOST DOMINION-"Al Carthill" -Putnam ($3.50). Under the title of this book, a florid classicist-an Indian civil servant-whose pseudonym does not hide the fact that at the best he came from Oxford or Cambridge, revels in a verbose interpretation of the history of the British in India. The general conclusion which the author reaches is that the British will one day lose India, for reason that there will be no place for her in the Commonwealth and no tie to bind her to the other Dominions...
...Hide and seek in the Pacific, Whites against the Greens, dummy torpedoes speeding at dreadnaughts, airplanes hovering aloft directing gun fire, spotting mine fields, destroyers spreading smoke screens, submarines diving and popping up from the deep; battle, murder and sudden death-these were the scenes, last week, as two divisions of the U. S. fleet played their war games off Hawaii like a school of sea-lions. In the wake of the fleet, with headquarters on the Islands, were Senators, Congressmen, newspaper correspondents. Much of the games between the Greens and the Whites they could not see. But, on land...
...offer aroused little enthusiasm among the other members of the Shipping Board. It was received with some favor by business men, one of whom hoped that the Shipping Board would follow the boats into the junk pile: "Let the tail go with the hide." Furtively, shipowners, native and foreign, prayed for the demolition of the ships because, bad as they are, they constitute a vaguely potential threat of competition...