Word: hides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn, over ivory shoulders, a glance cool with appraisal; gentlemen in dinner shirts striped with impossible decorations raise their monocles or feel for their small arms while he shambles into the room-"Viva, l'Ambassadeur." He wears an old grey suit. A jazbo necktie adorns, but fails to hide, the golden collar-stud. His shoes, surely, have never been denied by polish. See how he bows right and left, this gangling fellow, as lean as a lariat, in the old suit and the cracked shoes. His under lip protrudes like the point of a vulgar joke. His jaws move...
...scientist's closet, but to discovering and teaching popularly the wonders of the animal kingdom. He studied zoology and the keeping of museums in Europe. He obtained a post as taxidermist at the U. S. National Museum in Washington. In 1886 it suddenly drawned on him that the buffalo-hide hunters had nearly completed their task of exterminating the once-thunderous bison herds of the western plains. He got himself commissioned to collect for mounting the family group still to be seen in Washington. The vivid story of "Our Last Buffalo Hunt," and of many another hunt in the spacious...
...sister" and could pretend to himself that he had married for purity. Illness during her adolescence and a full stop in her mental development made this "purity" permanent. Her naive mother supplied the one other element-devoted care-essential to a little world where Poe's abnormality might hide from itself...
...skin coat is to cover my embarrassing set of knock-knees," was the statement issued by Stanley Lupino yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter, when questioned as to his opinion on Fanny Brice's recent lament for a fur coat. "I might use such a coat in a game of hide-and-seek," he added...
...those who believe that children should be completely separated from the grown-up world hide from them each copy of TIME...