Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will bet that Joyce and Miss Handy wrote as simply as their subjects permitted them to write; and I will state as a fact that most of the people writing for the Advocate and Signature write as complicatedly as they can, and that they do so in order to hide the fact that they have nothing to say. And this is why the criterion "is it easy to follow?" does not have to be held down to the funny-papers...
Anybody who has felt sweated levis bind around his thighs, smelled newly-branded cow hide and chewed on coffee grounds in a pouring rain knows the West contains more than sights and sounds. Yet by using those two elements and much imagination, Howard Hawks has produced a realistic interpretation of the outdoors. Red River is not a horse-opera; it is a great saga of the West, made without contrivance and make-believe...
When a man named Elie Nadelman died two years ago, his passing was barely noted. Last week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened a retrospective show that went a long way to prove that Nadelman, who made two splashy successes, then tried to hide, had been one of the best sculptors the U.S. had seen...
Regular Army men, the argument continues, become so hide-bound by their stultified training that they are only useful within the context of their own environment...
Would you believe it, we bought the ring. His desperation to get his money and then to best it out of Rome fast had convinced us that we were getting bargains and saving his hide, in one swell foop. But this you won't believe. Right away, pausing one more minute before leaving Rome, he offered in another ring, and we bought it for three dollars, an uncounted handful of lire, and Mosse's ball-point pen. Now we both had gold rings . . . but did you see those Columbia passes? How could we expect to break up those passes when...