Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Creditors hounded him so much, Walter recalled, that he used to hide under desks to avoid them, took to meeting the trains himself so he could "collect fares to pay a few creditors the next day." But as he fought to pull the family out of debt, Walter had his own ideas. In 1902 he borrowed $5,000 to start the Hawaiian Dredging Co.-something he himself considered "strictly a shoestring venture...
...bathing costume, throw it on the bank, and bathed naked.....Soon afterwards (the rest of the party) came to watch the bathing...Christine rushed to get her swimming costume. Stephen Ward threw it to one side so Christine could not get it and Christine seized a towel to hide herself. Lord Astor and Mr. Profume arrived at this moment and it was all treated as a place of fun, nothing indecent...
...brash tabloid published in Zurich, does everything wrong. It is tasteless, sensational and sometimes inaccurate. Its headlines scream. It runs prize contests but no editorial page. Its very existence offends the police and the government; some of its readers wrap its gaudy pages in a more august paper to hide their shameful habit from disapproving eyes. But almost every day more and more Swiss resort to this sub- terfuge. After four years of life, Blick proudly claims to have become Switzerland's second largest daily...
...vain I searched the editorial pages of four leading East Coast newspapers for a similar statement following the latest outrage. Small wonder our foreign policy exhibits a high degree of vacillation. We seem incapable of recognizing an enemy, or determined to hide his identity in a mass of verbiage...
...against avant-garde design in itself. Rather, I object to architecture that tries to cloak its sleaziness under something called "functional honesty." Architectural critics will tell me that Holyoke Center has nothing artificial about it, that it does not try to hide its functional aspects (like the unsightly utility core, which, God knows, ought to be hidden). "Functional honesty" seems to me a marvelously clever way of passing off cheapness and embarrassing people into acceptance of unfinished concrete exteriors. Hans Christian Andersen's emperor, after all, was dressed in a most functionally honest...