Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted to test a "stratosphere suit" which he claimed he had invented with the help of someone named Ring. The suit was composed of cotton cloth and thin laminated aluminum in twelve alternating layers. To protect himself from deadly fumes emanating from the ice he also put on a mask connected to a small oxygen tank carried in his hand. He clumped up a stepladder, lifted the box's lid. climbed down inside. A few slow seconds went by. A thick-gloved hand waved feebly. A spectator shouted. There was a quick cluster of men around...
...dramatic piece for the stage "Days Without End" is badly deficient. It is largely a desk revaluation of the whole life and experience of one man. The device of a mask is used to represent the rational self, the skeptic half, of John Loving. In the first three acts John discusses and debates the ending of his autobiographical novel with his dual self, with his uncle, a priest, and with his wife, Elsa. During his matrimonial happiness, John had once been faithless in a moment of pity for an abused woman. The dramatic point lies in the question of whether...
...front lobby wall of the RCA Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center has worn a false face of white plaster since last spring (TIME, May 22). Behind that mask was a great, bright unfinished fresco by Muralist Diego Rivera. When the visage of Nikolai Lenin unexpectedly blossomed in the centre of the painting, the Rockefellers paid Communist Rivera off with $14,000 due him, covered his work with canvas...
...real "forgotten man" in the U. S. pension muck is the actually disabled veteran who is often too self-respecting to join the scramble for aid. Pointing indignantly to European pension systems, Authoress Mayo asks: "Did they, too, profane the name of their War-disabled, using it as a mask for racketeers? Did they, too, bestow the title of 'veteran' on men who saw no service beyond a training camp or a draft board office? Did they class with battle casualties persons kicked by a mule or frightened by a tree-toad ten years after...
Tallest in the World. Near Dictator Stalin as he talked was Dictator Lenin's death mask in a glass case and opposite him a life-size portrait of "Ilyich1'- orating to proletarians. Near the death mask hung an architect's drawing of the Palace of the Soviets, most grandiose project to be attempted under Russia's present Second Five-Year Plan. Though young Hector 0. Hamilton, a British architect of East Orange, N. J., won $2,000 with his design for the Palace of Soviets Dictator Stalin later scrapped Mr. Hamilton's plan...