Word: hides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discontent of little people. If anyone could hold their confidence, it was old Winnie. His fond grip on them grew every hour. Rich and poor alike paid him honor. Britain felt that it was cornered, but that Winnie would find a fence to climb over and a mine to hide...
...Manchester Guardian in England, The New Republic here. His plea, From England to America, A Message, is an amplification of a New Republic article of June 17. In making it, he let out of the bag one of the biggest and blackest cats that shiftier interventionists have tried to hide...
...cotton textile market, here orders for future delivery-protection against empty shelves-totaled 100,000,000 yards, equal to five weeks' production. The liveliest textile industry, rayon, is producing 23% ahead of the first eight months of 1939, nevertheless maintaining shipments out of inventories, In the sensitive hide and leather markets, sales expanded, and the rush bid hides...
...elderly ladies with grizzled hair, to buxom young things with fat red cheeks and curves too voluminous, he points out cosmetic errors, boldly proposes new hairdos, new foundations. Sample Willis ukase: "Using a rose-tan powder foundation cream will do a blending job. But it won't hide freckles. In order to hide your freckles we'd have to make you as dark as an Indian and all the sparkle would be gone out of your face." Mrs. Fitzgerald offers suggestions on clothes, occasionally recommends that a visitor climb into a girdle...
...muscles, thus leave their patients with a masklike expression. Face-lifting is done under a local anesthetic, lasts about an hour and a half, is practically bloodless. Patients usually leave the hospital in four days, some of them wearing hats with veils or scarves tied under the chin to hide the scars. Only painful part of the operation is the bill, which may run anywhere from a few hundred dollars to $25,000, depending on what a patient can afford...