Word: mask
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flood Control. Simplicity wore a wry mask when the President wrote: "The Government is not an insurer of its citizens against the hazard of the elements. We shall always have flood and drought, heat and cold, earthquake and wind, lightning and tidal wave, which are all too constant in their afflictions. The Government does not undertake to reimburse its citizens for loss and damage incurred under such circumstances. It is chargeable, however, with the rebuilding of public works and the humanitarian duty of relieving its citizens in distress...
Messrs. Arthur Brisbane and William Randolph Hearst, who long have danced up and down the columns wearing the leering mask of the British war lord and the awful face of the Japanese warrior-samurai, have stopped scaring the children with stories of the air fleets to pass in the night. With several heartfelt sighs of relief King George and the Mikado learn that William Randolph and all the little pitch pipes in the great Hearst organ are now braying towards Mexico...
...revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness. He is a silent man, not given to speechifying; and behind his mask lies a singular determination. That is why M. Stalin is feared...
Every innuendo is tabulated, annotated, put with the other conversational flotsam between board covers. The gossip about Henry Ward Beecher's liaison, the lady friend of the Man in the Iron Mask, the other life of Carlyle. All the things that were tongue transmitted because the tabloid was not yet. Louis VIII and Roosevelt ... Francis Joseph and Lord Northcliffe ... Joan of Arc and Jesse James ... all that was said by lips behind a gloved hand or an outspread fan. Why Victoria sent the young officer into the India service, the life and times of the President's Daughter, who paid...
...only the 'superior' or discontented man who really laughs and perhaps that is why laughter, like tears, is ugly-being made up of grimaces and contortions, the mask of a hard or selfish mind...