Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streamlined gas mask, which some troops tried on for the first time last week, was more comfortable than the older types but looked no less repulsive...
Designed for paratroops, amphibians and assault infantry, the new mask is lighter, easier to use and carry. The carrier may be worn in several positions-even strapped to the leg, in hot climates where soldiers may be naked to the waist...
Flesh and Fantasy (Universal). > An ugly girl (Betty Field) masks herself as a beauty for the New Orleans Mardi Gras, fascinates the man she is in love with, awaits with terror the midnight removal of her mask...
...which Universal produced in the shock-absorbing '20s as a shivery vehicle for the late multiform Lon Chaney. The 1943 Phantom is bantam-sized Claude Rains, who attempts to terrify by sheer force of character, scar tissue and Technicolor. Scuttling about in a robin's-egg blue mask, Cinemactor Rains scares nobody but his fellow cinemactors...
...Buck-Rogers-of-the 25th-century schedule. Fantastic is the word for it. Tryone Power is the swash buckling sub officer who leads his men through incredible danger to blast the enemy base into technicolored flames and gore. The plot is there, but in the usual and tiring mask of the eternal triangle...