Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Germany should be made to pay as much as possible without financial collapse. The difficulty comes in determining how much that much is Germany on her part has made no New Year resolves and has vested control in throwing up a cloud of paper money behind which to mask the true state of her finances...
...said handle the forefinger of a saint, but glass cases stand between us and the ancient treasures like the impassable ether between Heaven and Hell. There they are, the immortals; Chaucer: the magistrates arresting John Bunyan (see, they present the warrant to him now): Cromwell somewhere behind his death mask (we feel secretly glad that he is, indeed, dead); and many others vaguely peeping through the pages of books. Did you know that the fastidious John Dryden was once a boy, went to a grammar school, actually scrawled his name in a Greek copy book with large letters...
...collection of Lincoln memorials, including photographs, manuscripts, and cartoons is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener. Included in the collection is a life mask of Lincoln together with a cast of his hands made by Leonard W. Volk, the sculptor. On one hand may plainly be seen a scar gained in the President's rail-splitting days...
...last and a tortured human mind gives way to reaction. For that one brief interval Hamlet is one of us who has suffered to the top of his bent and lost control--he laughs, capers, and altogether offers a more convincing counterfeit of madness than the actors unchanging tragic mask allowed his most deliberate efforts. A little more of lightness, at those points where the author saw their need, might bring this demi-god to our level...
...visitors any strain other than that upon the eardrums. In spite of the "inconvenience and embarrassment", however, over-hospitality certainly has its advantages. Admiral Sims, or any other famous American who goes to Cambridge cannot help but feel flattered by the fact that British enthusiasm has taken its mask off to welcome...