Word: mask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...middle of a match without lowering his game. Tennis fans consider him the smartest, nearest thing to a veteran in the present crop of headliners. He doesn't hit very hard, but he hits for the openings. He has a fine, quick wrist that enables him to mask the direction of a shot until the last moment...
...what it was that his country would need. He was an Asiatic expansionist before the Manchukuo Incident, a totalitarian seven years before the Konoye reorganization. The crew haircut, the round, boy's face, the carefree smile, the candor, the courtesy, the mystic organ-note of his speechifying, all mask the hard core of the opportunist who has made of himself what he is and hopes to make of himself still more...
...Deal. The British suspected that the whole thing might be a feint to mask a new blow at Britain. Sir Stafford Cripps saw no hope for Britain in Russia: this week he said he would not return to Moscow. In Ankara British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen talked for an hour with Foreign Minister Sükrü Saracoĝlu, trying to find out what was up. Turkey would be an important item in a Russo-German deal, and Turkey is a gateway to the Middle East and Suez...
...first glance the young British flight lieutenant looked mischievous, boyish; at second glance as if he wore a Mephistophelean mask. And a mask it was-a mask of his own skin. He was a ghastly triumph of plastic surgery. He told Manhattan reporters how his Spitfire had been shot down 28,000 feet over the English Channel. As the plane burst into flames, he pulled off his oxygen mask, bailed out. When picked up, he was terribly burned on his face and hands...
...that her shelter mate is the guest of honor. Their hostess (Billie Burke) is a giddy lady who believes that "into the life of every English girl a little American should fall." Not in sympathy with that credo, Miss Carroll scampers home, gets into bed, puts on her gas mask and ponders whether the right man could see through its ugliness into her soul. As if to find out, she crawls on all fours to a wall mirror and barks at herself...