Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the association with Annette was the one incident in the life of Wordsworth in which he showed his real nature seems less than probable. "The Prelude", which Professor Herford takes as his source of information for the life of the poet is, according to Mr. Read, "a deliberate mask. It is an idealisation of the poet's life, not the reality. To show what the reality was--that is my fist purpose...
Last Friday the baseball game showed up the human side of those austere and dignified members of the faculty better than Mr. Hoover's new secretary employed to "humanize him." Students flocked to see not simply the unbending official, but his personality behind the mask of officialdom. They went to see their elders take in good humor an occasional personal jibe. They came back satisfied that after all faculty men are not entirely unsympathetic, inhuman pedagogues. Yale News...
...that shopgirls call "cute." When his father, who was a vice president of New York Rubber Co. died, Robert Montgomery left Pawling School where he had learned to play good golf and tennis, took to driving a fertilizer truck. William Faversham let him play five small parts in The Mask and the Face. He lives in a bungalow called "Chez Montgomery," claims that he has worked every day except eleven in the past two years. He has succumbed to a few typical Hollywood eccentricities, such as ordering a steak for dessert, reading Russian history, wearing a bright yellow polo coat...
...University of Pennsylvania's Mask & Wig Club is a unique organization. Election to the organization is one of the University's prime social plums. In addition, Mask & Wig presents an annual show, semiprofessional in nature, written and staged by graduates, acted by undergraduates, an approximation of Wisconsin's Haresfoot Club. Mask & Wig is a wealthy organization, having given a unit of dormitories to its University, and not every performer in the show gets elected to the club. Last week in Manhattan the organization concluded a five-week tour, presenting its 43rd production, East Lynne Gone West...
...every knowing Roman knows, Benito Mussolini has two faces, the scowling imperial mask which II Duce wears on every public appearance before his countrymen, and the unassuming, jovial expression with which he welcomes foreign visitors who need no intimidation. With a nice blend of the two expressions II Duce mounted a rostrum in Rome last week to open the International Grain Conference, a meeting attended by delegates of 46 wheat-growing nations. He scowled slightly because he knew that his photograph and his words would be reported in every Italian newspaper. He smiled often, avoided dogmatism, because he realized that...