Word: hides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This excerpt from the diary of that old Puritan, Samuel Sewall, shows how completely the order of the English Parliament in 1644 put an end to merry Christmas. All the hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...
...important questions in their daily lives. A typical divining set contains pieces of animals and natural objects regarded as representing the powers of the universe, which must be brought to bear on the problem. A porcupine quill is included for its penetrating quality; a bit of leopard's hide because the leopard represents strength; a stone from the stomach of a crocodile because of the local legend that a crocodile which has swallowed nine stones cannot be harmed; a piece of a hawk, which gathers everything in its talons, symbolizing the bringing to bear of all these forces upon...
...king again, and supreme as he has not been since before the days of the canning factories. All the old salts have turned out to spin yarns with their visitors from Nova Scotia, and no one who ever displayed special prowess with cod has been permitted to hide his light under a bushel. Not only the technique of sailing and the merits of different types of schooners but all the details of the fisherman's trade have been recited to willing and unwilling audiences, and boasts of great achievements have been brazenly made...
...represented as nothing more or less than it really is. By all means, give the C. M. T. C. its due and proper place but by the same token, that place does not require it to serve as a screen to hide congressional improvidence in military matters...
...perfection of photographs and make-up, the record of this year's book has rarely, if ever, been equalled; book has rarely, if ever, been equalled; but--the drawings are nothing less than horrible--with one or two exceptions, and no amount of verbal whitewash would suffice to hide the fact. Such frankness may not be pleasant, but it is at least justified by the facts...