Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Dr. Whitman: "All these patients are entitled at least to a chance of relief. In favorable cases surgical treatment may entirely mask the effects of the disease. In worse cases it may enable the patient to discard apparatus. In the worst cases it can hold out the possibility of independent locomotion. . . . Only a very small number need expect to look, feel, or act like a cripple...
...Alexander Ondi, 21 (who was born in the hamlet of Chicago, Tex. and lived there for his first eleven years), tested the Hungarian law last week. Wearing a mask made for him by "the sweetheart of a friend of mine," Alexander Ondi held up a Budapest bank, got away with $10,000, fired shots into the air, hit nobody...
Every person should be taught how to wear and use a gas mask. A depot of masks should be available in every community. Those who cannot handle masks -children, invalids, the aged, the wounded -should have cellar refuges. Large cities should have several refuge districts with a protected cellar in each. Every new, large building should have a gas-proof basement. The cellars should be ventilated through tall chimneys. This is essential, because poison gases discharged from either ground or airplane tanks are heavy, settle close to earth. Outside of each community there should be safety zones, protected like...
...will have to pay. Their idea: As a quasi-dictator Dr. Bruning must be harder on rich men than he would need to be as an out-and-out Mussolini. Acting on this idea the 1,400 rich men voted a resolution urging Dr. Bruning to tear off the mask, proclaim himself what he almost is: Dictator...
Behind this mask, Mr. Read finds to his almost gleeful surprise, a suppressed soul. So long as his love for Annette burned in his spirit, he could write such great poems as "Tintern Abbey". But the fog of British respectability soon clouded this source of poetic feeling, and after ten short years the fire went out for lack of fuel and encouragement. After that there is nothing. As long as Annette lived he was that poet of "reality" but one his love for her died he saw things only through the smoked glasses of conventionality. From that time...