Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worked himself to the point of exhaustion, served on countless political committees, worried about his growing family, he rose enthusiastically to important occasions. When news of Benedict Arnold's treachery arrived, Peale created a two-faced effigy of the traitor, a letter from Beelzebub in one hand, a mask in the other, with the devil behind him (see cut). A small boy hidden in the wagon's false bottom pulled strings to keep the puppet dancing, to the delight of jeering Philadelphians. In 1781, when Colonel Tench Tilghman galloped into Philadelphia with the news that Cornwallis had surrendered...
...private, Mr. Patience and Captain Thornhill often dropped the mask of formality and addressed each other as "Roy" and "Noel," but Patience continued his devoted and impeccable service, even to the extent of tucking the new lord of the manor in bed each night...
...began listening' to classical music, read Socrates and was quoted: "I've always been a pushover for poetry-Oscar Wilde. Walt Whitman and some of Robert Bridges. Verse seems to say something to me that nothing else can." When the "sea gull" was arrested, she had a mask of caked make-up and a bottle-blond hairdo, but as she was moved to the death house at San Quentin 26 months later, she had neat brown hair, a scrubbed face, wore a tasteful beige suit and looked like a respectable suburban housewife...
Tito's Appearance: "He has a flabby, effeminate face, a mask which conceals the wicked, cunning and egotistical soul of an artful sneak . . . A bloodthirsty dwarf and illiterate petit-bourgeois who dons golden uniforms and is suffering from megalomania" (Literary Gazette, Moscow...
Every highbrow worth his martini nowadays has enough psychoanalytical know-how to trace his best friend's fallen arches back to infantile stresses and strains or to see homicidal tendencies merely as the mask of a basically shy, reticent character. Now, thanks to the appearance of this book, any lowbrow can also learn to take the first fumbling steps towards a total misunderstanding of human nature...