Word: hides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently become civilized, should already have produced the rarest and most delicate flower of decadent aristocracy, an example of supreme elegance. It would be unfair to say that Dandy Menjou is an actor as well as an example. All his roles are the same; he wears fine clothes to hide his scrawny shanks; he gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry a rich & beautiful woman. In Serenade he impersonates a young composer...
...reason for desiring friendship and understanding between our two countries I have never sought to hide. ... I believe that the peace of the world depends largely upon that understanding...
...Rabbi Solomon Goldman, more learned in Talmud than even Mr. Katz, but slightly, very slightly less Orthodox. He suggested and, through synagog politics, persuaded the men & women to sit together during his services. That innovation was terrible to righteous minds. It violated ancient Jewish, Semitic, Oriental traditions. Women should hide themselves in the House of God.* Mr. Katz was vexed. Many of the congregation left. In Cleveland where the P'selvah Katz clan numbers almost a thousand, there is a saying: "to fight like a Katz." Abraham A. Katz remained with Anshe Emeth Congregation to fight Rabbi Goldman...
...might tell you stirring tales of the family's heroic past--of the Forecast who died for an idea-- of the Forecast who was confined for life for lack of an idea. But I will not. Rather will I show you that the Forecast of today need not hide their heads when their ancestor's names are mentioned...
...stubbornness. "Well," said Principal Rainey, "do you want to put on the boxing gloves with one of the other boys? Or do you want me to make your mother come to school?" The boy shook his head against boxing. "See, that proves that he is yellow. He wants to hide behind his mother's skirts!" exclaimed the principal rhetorically, seeking to excite manliness in the pupil. Ralph, shamed, said that he would fight. He and another school boy put on great, softly-padded boxing gloves; Principal Rainey stood by with a stopwatch to mark two-minute rounds; teachers acted...