Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mask T. K. Laidlaw...
...platform in such a position that they could be seen by the whole House. When the House did see them, it cheered and hooted with mirth. According to the French chemist, Dr. Pierre Louis Rehm, Germany has a new poison gas. It is colorless, odorless, can penetrate a gas mask, is one of the deadliest known to science. It embodies carbon monoxide. Dr. Heinrich Brauns, Minister of Labor, speaking before an audience of German Catholics in Berlin, said that there were 5,000,000 unemployed persons in Germany and 15,000,000 persons dependent on charity for their support...
...great influence through the public honors that had been conferred upon them. . . . Accordingly they went into the open market to sell that information and that influence to those who were contending against the Government. Most of them disguised their transactions under the term 'legal services.' With that mask before them, they expected to escape detection, and even now have the effrontery to pretend that their action was ethical because it was performed in the capacity of attorneys...
...fatality which gave a comic mask to a tragedian...
...Pitt was (on its opening night) an inept and incoherent production, possibly aggravated by Producer Pemberton, under the burden of presenting three productions in five days (The Living Mask, Mister Pitt, The Marionette Man}. Differences between the stage hands and the eleven sets of scenery multiplied confusion...