Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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DEATH IN THE SENATE-"Diplomat"-Covici, Friede ($2). Sprightly Dennis Tyler again pierces the mask of official Washington, explains two catastrophes, prevents a third...
...this reticulated ceiling, effulgent with the light of a thousand candles, lived and worked the other unfortunate inmates of the vast and awe-inspiring edifice. Unfortunate they were indeed to be called, for not one of them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask to counterfeit his humour, and feign a satisfaction which in reality he had no hope of possessing. Indeed, each as he worked was occupied with such melancholick reflections as might have befitted Panterias the sage, when the future course of his life was revealed to him by the haruspex; as that...
...current American Journal of Surgery he, a radio enthusiast, explained how he had equipped himself to talk to his classes without raising his voice and disturbing the patient. His device is a microphone mounted on a little rod, held before his mouth inside the surgeon's mask by a headband, connected to an amplifier built into a suitcase...
...possible. She flies grimly around the world; he meets her glumly in New York. Their depression, induced by gallantry, reaches its nadir when the aviatrix learns that she is going to have a baby. She hops into her plane, flies as high as she can, removes her oxygen mask...
...experience, whatever it is. So many of my friends have faced it, why not I? In the meantime, why fret about it? I have been shaving this funny old face every Sunday. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday for years and years. I have come to look on it as a mask behind which lies the reality that it has to hide. It is getting a bit battered and shopworn. Perhaps it would not be such a bad idea to cast it off and let dust return to dust...