Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with enough oxygen (under 2,200 lbs. pressure) to last 25 minutes at 400 ft., and two lead weights, a six-pounder to neutralize his own buoyancy, a three-pounder to aid the descent. Then, with a cheery "It's time I got going," Root donned his face mask and slipped over the side...
...MASK OF INNOCENCE (206 pp.)-Francois Mouriac-Farrar, Straus & Young...
...consists in creating a handful of morally diseased characters and dragging them through a couple of hundred pages reeking of sin and sensuality. The French, including many devout Roman Catholics, have an unpleasant word to describe the distinguished Catholic author's novels. It is malsain-unhealthy. In The Mask of Innocence, a thoroughly unpleasant novel about thoroughly unpleasant people, Nobel Prizewinner Mauriac sets out to illustrate the doctrine that even moral leprosy can be cured by divine grace...
...doctor-members of the London Local Medical Committee, deeply distressed "at the lack of any effective response from official quarters to what can truthfully be described as a national disaster," urged fellow townsmen to protect their lungs with sixpence worth of gauze folded into a six-layer mask and tied over the mouth and nose. The meshes of the mask, said the committee, would arrest most of the soot, while moisture from the breath, condensed on the mask, would prevent passage of some of the chemicals that cause lung trouble...
...British Medical Association backed up the committee, but the government's Ministry of Health loftily pooh-poohed the doctors' suggestion. "The more efficient the mask." said one spokesman, "the more difficult it is to breathe through, particularly in the case of bronchitic patients." But London shopkeepers were quick to seize on the mask. At the end of two days, many London chemists had sold all their gauze. Mayfair milliners hastily sketched up a line of fashionable "smoggles" in tulle, velvet and chiffon to please the modish dyspneic. One dress designer announced a "bunny mask" modeled on a rabbit...