Word: hides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learning in New England. But this genial doctor, this cultured scientist, this popular society man came to an untimely end because he murdered a creditor who had hounded him too mercilessly. Whether Mr. Ellis considers him a failure because he committed the murder or because he was unable to hide his guilt, we cannot say; but it was probably for the first reason...
...thinking of Chaucer and wondering why. Perhaps it is the breathless jostle of bright costume and eager garrulity, the sheer impetuousness of movement as such, the merrily malicious person of our playwright-imp teasing here, pricking there, now poking a goodly joke if the ribs of conscience, now playing hide-and-seek with a smug morality, always exposing to laughter the foibles, the vanities, the littlenessesses of our too human nature...
With possibly no exception Herbert Hoover is the only man who emerged from the ordeal of the Paris Conference with an increased reputation. His work of food conservation is so well known in this country that it even seems to hide from many people the magnificent work which the commission acting under his guidance accomplished for our Allies abroad. Aside from the humanitarian point of view, Hoover was one of the very great material factors which this country lent toward defeating the common enemy. Furthermore, let us never forget the extraordinary assistance afforded Europe in the first half...