Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stringing machines, however, may be a little too technical for the average observer. He's more interested in the atmosphere of the shop, and in the trophies and pictures which hide its walls. The pictures especially are intriguing. They vary all the way from a fading photograph of Harry Cowles, forty-five years ago, when he was a ball-boy at the Newport Casino, to a crystal-clear shot of Champion Beckman Pool '32, in his underwear...
...against a much faster Northeastern basketball team than it expected, Coach Wes Fesler's Varsity five rose to the occasion and put on its best speed of the season in trouncing the visitors 51' to 33 last night in the Indoor Athletic Building. The Yardlings had previously tanned the hide of the weak Husky Cubs...
...Germans at night, smashing full reserves (to hamstring the Luftwafle's training program), rail centres like Cologne, submarine-building and repair plants. But the harried British grew restive. U. S. correspondents grew cantankerous. It was absurd, they said, for the British censorship to try to hide the names of cities newly blasted by the Luftwafle, leaving citizens dependent upon German communiqués to confirm what their own eyes or common gossip knew quite well. Contributing to a concerted outburst of U. S. sarcasm, the Chicago Daily News correspondent, Robert J. Casey, wrote...
...like Ingrid Bergman must be shot from the left as her face is expressionless from the other side. They are careful with close-ups of older beauties like Claudette Colbert and Marlene Dietrich, keeping them motionless to conceal the wrinkles that make-up and careful lighting won't hide. Photographing rubber chins and putty noses on a bias to avoid detection is a matter of course...
There is the battle of Long Island, like an old panorama print, with Smallwood's line of brown-clad Marylanders saving the routed American forces. There are weird night scenes in the Long Island swamps where the hunted tories hide, the horrors of life in the British prison hulks; the desperate tory defense of Ninety Six, a Virginia outpost. One of the book's best passages describes the long columns of tories stretching from Winchester (far down the Shenandoah Valley) to the Cumberland Gap. Persecuted by the rebels, let down by the British, the homeless loyalists ooze slowly...