Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fencer. Joy Magnus, a stocky 15-year-old with brown hair tucked under her mask, lunged and parried at the Manhattan Fencers' Club last week, won the National Women's Junior Foils Fencing Championship by defeating Julia Jones 5 to 0, Dorothy Loike...
...Manhattan, Dr. Nicholas Partos, chain-store druggist, wealthy manufacturer of chocolate-coated pills, awoke and found a burglar prowling through his Fifth Avenue mansion. The burglar hit Dr. Partos on the head with a piece of iron pipe. Dr. Partos tore off the burglar's mask, chased him downstairs, bashed him repeatedly on the head with his fist. Allowing the burglar to run out of the house, Dr. Partos returned upstairs to reassure Mrs. Partos who observed the burglar fleeing into Central Park. In his haste he had left his coat, hat and shoes in the house, was running...
...another to investigate controversial questions. He has been flayed because his stand on Prohibition was too Dry or too Wet, because he would not deal strongly enough with Congress on tariff rates, because he dealt too strongly with Congress on farm legislation. Avoiding public speeches, living be hind a mask of impersonality, he has revealed little or nothing of himself and his reactions to his high office...
...types of gas-mask were always being issued. One kind was known in Graves' battalion as "the goggle-eyed b-r with the tit." Graves' nose had been broken boxing, so he had to have an operation while on leave in order to breathe through the mask. In July, 1916, he was so severely wounded in the lung by a shell that he was reported dead, and the colonel wrote a letter of condolence to his mother. Later, in England, he had difficulty cashing cheques because of his illegal vitality...