Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slit eyes in the mask; wild loves that...
...about the office of the Secretary of the Treasury one morning last week, dappling its black leather arm chairs, glinting on the glass doors of its bookcases and softening the chill rain that fell outside. Behind his broad mahogany desk sat Andrew William Mellon, his thin patrician face a mask to his own reflections. Around the big room were scattered Treasury newshawks attending what would probably be their last press conference with this shy little man puffing meditatively on a black cigar no bigger than a cigaret. His career as Secretary of the Treasury was over; President Hoover, calling...
...Professor Caso's plain archeologist's terms: "The long years had dealt severely with them. . . . Their skeletons had virtually disintegrated during the many decades since they had been placed there." At burial the warriors had been sheathed with jewel-clotted gold. For each face there was a gold-&-turquoise mask. Extraordinary objects of gold, silver, copper, jade, turquoise, coral, pearl, nacre, rock crystal, alabaster, lay ranged about. Trophy of one warrior was a human skull, richly encrusted with turquoise and shell. In the hollow of the nose was a flint knife...
Best find in the tomb was a gold mask, four inches high, representing terrific Xipetotec,* the Cloud People's god of vegetation, gold, silver and grief. For Xipetotec's pleasure one of his priests would dance in a skin freshly flayed from a dazzling, dazzled woman...
Vassar's amiable President Henry Noble MacCracken contented himself with saying that no further action would be taken, that "the matter has been satisfactorily cleared up by publicity." President MacCracken had other things to do just then. A life mask had been taken of his face, from which was modelled a bulbous, theatrical mask. He was busy learning and polishing up Greek lines for the Hippolytus of Euripides. An able actor, Dr. MacCracken has appeared before in Vassar plays, has many times amused his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day. Last week he donned his mask and buskins...