Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would-be lynchers turned tail under the blast, Judge Coleman hastily declared a mistrial, ruefully admitted that the attempt to prosecute the case at Shelbyville was "a mistake." Guardsmen wrapped puttees around Negro Harris' trembling legs, clapped a gas mask over his black face, covered his shabby sweater with a militia greatcoat, rushed him out to an automobile. Determined officers sped the blackamoor to Nashville and safety. Their job done, the troops marched out to the edge of Shelbyville and pitched camp...
...with a theatrical company. His father threw him out of the house when he married the leading lady. He took to drink, drifted into poverty, died in the attic of his father's house. The best Bostonians attended his funeral. Gilbert Stuart painted his portrait from a death mask...
From the opening line, "You will kill your father and marry your mother" which was spoken in dull, hollow tones by Richard C. Sullivan '35, from behind the hideous mask of the Narrator, to the final peal of thunder, supplied by the machinations of Whitney Cook, Jr. '36, the Dramatic Club's rendering of Jean Cocteau's "La Machine Infernale" (in translation) at the Repertory Theatre is a fine bit of technique and dramatization...
...German blacksmith, Chicago's "Flying Dutchman" Jay Berwanger, who wears a white mask to protect a nose broken in his freshman year, found Illinois backs alert against passes, Illinois linemen on guard against power plays. Galbreath's touchdown in the first period won for Illinois...
...Begins, Registered Nurse have already acquainted the cinema public with the notion that a pretty girl in a nurse's uniform can be counted on to perform superhuman feats of courage, loyalty, good humor, devotion to duty and dexterity with any item of hospital apparatus from an ether mask to a bedpan...