Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slovakia's late great Founder-President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Son Masaryk, unlike Dr. Benes, does not believe in the re-creation of Czecho-Slovakiain the old sense but as a federation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia within a customs union. Asked why he was not carrying a gas mask in London, Son Masaryk cracked: "I used to carry one when I was a little boy, but I put it away years...
Born. To Yehudi Menuhin, 22, blond, brilliant violinist, and Nola Nicholas Menuhin, 20; a daughter; in San Francisco, Calif. The child, which weighed six pounds, twelve ounces, was given the name Zamira. the Russian word for Peace. Said Father Yehudi, who had watched the operation with a surgical mask over his face: "I want the baby to hate music or love it. I don't want any passivity...
...cram parlors will not immediately close their doors. Let there be no mistake about that. But their mask of holiness has been finally and effectively torn away from them. They can no longer make any pretenses to educational merit, for any tutoring of a reputable and legitimate nature can be done better and more cheaply by the University. They must openly admit that they exist for another and less honorable reason...
...Chamberlain" himself, darkly muttering a ditty, who stole the show: I'm Watty the warden from Wandsworth With helmet and gas mask complete. . . . When the bombers on high Drop their gas from the sky I'll waggle my rattle until they pass...
...Here's a fashion for night air raid warning . . . zip-fastened, one-piece suit . . . expanding pocket will hold a torch and compact, first-aid case . . . gas mask container is waterproof" (Debenham & Freebody...