Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright idea of mixing a physic in bread flour occurred to a St. Louis trio named Edward Ownen, Frank Dawdy and Glenn Allmon, who composed Bakers' Research Co. That bread, a staple article of diet, should not be used to mask the presence of a cathartic, seemed sound to Chief Walter Gilbert Campbell of the Federal Food & Drug Administration. Mr. Campbell had the St. Louis three called to court where they were fined $600, "one of the largest recent penalties" imposed for a food & drug violation, Chief Campbell crowed last week...
...their columnist as a circulation-puller was to make a mystery of her identity. They have continued to whet Detroit's curiosity by creating around Nancy Brown's real name as titillating a hocus-pocus as that which made the reputations of The Man in the Iron Mask and radio's Your Lover. At her parties and religious services she mingles anonymously with the crowd. Only a few of her Column Folks have guessed...
Last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association the young researchers announced excellent results with a combination of 10% carbon dioxide and 90% oxygen, administered through an ordinary ether mask. Not for plain disagreeable drunks is their treatment, emphasized the doctors, but only for desperate drunks with slow, jerky breath, faint pulse, dilated pupils, cold bluish skin...
Resumed at once was the impenetrable mask of words behind which John Buchan lives. Tendered a congratulatory dinner in London by 600 Canadians and the Dominion High Commissioner, he flattered them directly for half an hour, then provoked them to pleased mirth by this witty hyperbole: "In one sense Canada is Britain's senior. Constitutionally, all the 'autonomous units' of the Empire are to-day equal sovereign States under one king. They are 'Dominions' and of these Dominions, Canada is the oldest and Britain the youngest...
...twist. In explicit advice to the Congress of 400 Communist leaders from 52 countries, he urged "cunning" and "Trojan horse tactics." Hereafter Communists are to insinuate themselves quietly into trade unions, religious bodies and social groups. They are to lay aside the violent, blatant Red methods of the past, mask their anti-religion and spread Communist doctrine in the guise of Socialism, Liberalism or New Deals among the muddleheaded of all lands...