Word: hide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...losing them? The answer is simple: their work is not appreciated or recognized. It will require an unprecedented loosening of the bustle to proceed with the necessary changes. The lady must cease her Machiavellian policies and take more of her handmaids into her confidence. She must not hide her plans from those whom they most concern...
...trip in search of the famous, musk ox which inhabit the Polar region and feed on the frozen vegetation which grows in the bare spots of this country. He showed the first moving pictures ever taken of these rare animals, encircled by the Captain's Esquimaux dogs which played hide and seek with them, some times however getting caught on the horns. "I've always wanted to ride a musk-ox," said the speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young one and tied a rope around his neck. He thought...
...Night Club. Raymond Griffith is just about to burst out as one of our chief comedians. He is not cross-eyed, his feet are mates, he does not hide behind a beard, his clothes fit. He is an actor who can eat up a funny situation without spilling it on his vest. 'The Night Club is an aimless burlesque . through which he wears a high silk hat. Though the plot is not vital, what there is of it deals with a will whereby the happy bachelor must marry a cer tain girl...
...many acts of violence. Then it is that he hears the old clock sing, with much clucking of the tongue, a lament for the days when its pendulum would work all night; the china gods complain in childish voices; the teapot collogue with the teacup. Amazed, lie tries to hide near the fireplace, but the fire comes from its kennel to nip him in the breeches...
...what unheard of wickedness is the Mayor not accused; and of what manner of perfidy is he not deemed capable. To maintain equanimity it is necessary to develop the hide of a rhinoceros to withstand the daily assaults and at the same time keep one's faith alive in the fundamental goodness of human nature despite manifestations of baseness...