Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MASK is OFF ! . . .-The President's speech last night left no twilight zone of doubt or uncertainty as to his meaning. He tossed aside with contempt the cloak of specious argument with which he dressed his initial proposal of judicial reorganization. Last night heard no plea for the expediting of judicial business, no claim for swifter-footed justice more accessible to the poor man, no proposals for the relief of senility on the Federal bench...
...sitting room, stretched out on the sofa. Soon Bridget, dozing in her room, was roused by a cry from Miss Lizzie: ''Come down here! Father's dead; someone came in and killed him!" Mr. Borden was still lying on the sofa, his face and head a mask of blood. He had been hacked to death with some sharp, heavy instrument. His body was still warm, the blood was still flowing. Neighbors came running, the house was searched; in the spare room they found the body of Mrs. Borden lying on the floor, hacked to death...
Chlorpicrin is a lung injurant which incidentally causes vomiting, strangulation and temporary blindness. It was difficult to guard against chlorpicrin in the War because none of the chemicals except charcoal in the gas-mask canister would remove it from the entering...
...attackers of the bill admit that the conditions in a few states need federal correction, and the issue is the passage of a law strong and explicit enough to put the United States on a par with other countries. The comic episodes in the shadow of the sacred cod mask a tragedy of high minded people fighting themselves instead of the enemy...
...talk about Democracy," Il Duce told Mrs. McCormick. "You talk as if it existed or could exist in this 20th Century world of machines and mass production, as if we were still living in the 19th Century world of individual enterprise! I tell you Democracy is only a mask for Capitalism, which clings desperately to the outmoded forms that allowed it free play. "The era of Capitalism is over! Here in Italy it is finished, it is dead.* If by democracy you mean government for and in the interests of the people then our system and ours alone is truly...