Word: hide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor Must Develop Rhinoceros Hide...
...public is to know at all what the President intends to do, it should be informed authoritatively, not by means of equivocal statements vouched for by no one. This kind of government smacks too much of hide-and-seek politics...
...Devil Within is one of those melodramas where the individual auditor is expected to curl up like a piece of burnt leather and crumble away with excitement. On the opening evening, professional observers refused to do this, owing to their long stern schooling in the mystery melodrama. The hide of an accomplished critic will not curl. Ordinary observers were reported to have curled slightly. In the last act, some of them even crumbled...
...problem is not in a cure, but in a show down of the facts and in a readjustment of ourselves to them. The semitic bogie has had its innings. The picture of the college swallowed, hide, hair and hoofs, by the graduate structure of the university has been flashed before us. The club system has been given Hector's ride around the walls. They're still there and they'll probable remain there for aught our diagnosing and I don't know as I know why they shouldn't. If there's one thing that can and will change them...
...outdoor sports of summertime is doomed. Soon the aesthetic plaints of the motorist will be ended, for the loathsome billboard is going. The traveler must then confine his remarks to those queer flowers, that old house, or those funny people. On Sunday afternoons, when the clouds of gasoline smoke hide all these possible objects of observation, comments and curses must be reserved for the dust and the numbers of miles to the gallon. The art of conversation, which has been lagging since the days of Emerson and Holmes, seems about to suffer an extensive mutilation...