Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spoils of War. In Los Angeles, the sheriff arrested a twelve-year-old boy for stealing a Garand rifle, cartridge belt, gas mask, helmet, motorcycle first-aid kit, field bag, a pair of binoculars, four bayo nets and scabbards, several pairs of trousers and several shirts from an Army camp. Said the boy: "I wanted to have some souvenirs to give to my grand children." Tyger, Tyger. In Los Angeles, Leo Winter was fined $500 for misapplication of ration points in spite of his explanation that he and his wife and his cat had eaten 495 Ib. of meat between...
Four of them were over Germany, and on the last one his luck almost ran out. He was flying as top-turret gunner over Münster when a flak burst hit the turret dome, shattered his goggles, tore off his oxygen mask. Copilot and radioman pulled him down and revived him with an emergency mask. After that, Ben got his orders for home...
...best part in the play, that of the All-American Five Letter Female, goes to Libby Devolder. She plays the part admirably in the beginning of the play, but when the time comes to throw away her mask and step into the open as the nasty little package of feminine vixenity that she really is, she fails dismally. She does not seem to be able to register the depth of emotion called for. In short, she makes the audience hate her while she is playing the vixen in ewe's clothing, and then does not live up to that hatred...
Alumni of genial, ruddy Hugo's numerous publications today hold many important positions in the U.S. radio industry. They fondly call Gernsback "the old buzzard." At 59, Hugo presides over a shabby Manhattan office where he has a death mask of his good friend, the late, great, grandly eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.* Hugo Gernsback has never made much money out of his astounding ideas...
...final medieval touch: a helmet hinged on each side of the head just above the ears and locking over the center of the chin. It stems directly from a 15th-Century Italian helmet called armet-a-rondelle. But it fits handily over an oxygen mask...