Word: masking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most emancipated woman in backward Afghanistan. Both these sagacious ladies paid small heed to President Kalinin, whom ignorant peasants affectionately call the "Little Father," as they once did the Tsar. The Queen and the Ministress know that Comrade Kalinin is but a willing and placid figurehead, who serves to mask the activities of seclusive Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin. Characteristically the seldom-or-never-seen Dictator kept himself within the thick-walled Kremlin, last week, while the Royal Afghans were lodged just outside, in a sumptuous marble palace overlooking the Moskva River. Soviet press censors would take care that no word...
...cannot stomach this way of making profit of a tragic situation under the mask of charity. Here we have everything that is necessary, and we do not need people to come from the United States to bring us serum. We can get along without American doctors be they the most accomplished specialists of that great country...
...Young, chairman of Radio Corporation of America, sailed with Mrs. Young last week for a holiday in England, and would not explain. General James G. Harbord, R. C. A.'s president, compressed his lips into silence. President Edward E. Shumaker of Victor Talking Machine Co. let a mask of diffidence hide his thoughts...
...seven years old he saw a shipwreck. "It made me shake, but I like to shake that way." When Walt was eleven Aaron Burr recommended the Arabian Nights to him. When he was thirteen Samuel Clemens told him of a Quaker preacher he had exhumed to make a death mask. Whitman shook again. By the time he was twenty he had successively been a typographer, reporter, editor, carpenter, novelist, teacher. A few months on a job and he shuffled off to another. He had such...
...That on and after said date all Klansmen are forbidden to fraternize with or remain in Klannish Fidelity to any who shall thereafter wear upon his helmet a mask or visor...