Word: mask
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following the Napoleonic wars, the neglected veterans of Waterloo and the martyrs of Peterloo (hundreds of hungry English weavers shot down by the militia for protesting their working conditions). Shelley wrote: "I Met Murder on the way-He had a Mask like Castlereagh." In 1822, in a fit of depression, Castlereagh slit his throat with a penknife...
Curiosities make up a good part of the collection. A special glans case houses the cigar that Edwin Booth was about to smoke when he died of a heart attack, and there is also the death mask of the great British actor, Edmund Koan...
...promptly married Actor John Dean, the man Lewis had named as corespondent. Angrily vowing that she never had her face lifted, Fannie claimed, depending on her audience, that her smooth, unlined skin was the result of 1) secret face creams, 2) exotic lotions, 3) a "Siberian snow face mask," 4) a young husband, 5) a diet of green vegetables...
...first floor balcony of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, six mannequins pose in costumes one might expect to see either at the Mardi Gras or on the Tom Corbett Space Cadet television program. One of the dummies sports a mask composed of a Chinese red semi-sphere and what looks like one half of a stone arrowhead with a black eye hole in the center. One of his arms is a lance, surrounded by a bell-like guard. The other arm, wearing skin-tight silk encased in a gourd shaped sheath, holds a golden club. The remaining five costumes, all designed...
Vishinsky's words sounded uncomfortably like the noises the Communists made 18 months ago to mask their aggression against South Korea: the Reds characteristically accuse the other side of a crime they themselves are about to commit...